Garfinkel2023
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Garfinkel2023 |
| Author(s) | Harold Garfinkel |
| Title | Praxeological Validity of Instructed Action |
| Editor(s) | Michael Lynch, Oskar Lindwall |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Instructed Action |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2023 |
| Language | English |
| City | London |
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| Pages | 21–36 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003279235-3 |
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| Book title | Instructed and Instructive Actions: The Situated Production, Reproduction, and Subversion of Social Order |
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Abstract
This chapter is an edited transcript of a lecture by Harold Garfinkel that was delivered in 1992 as part of a seminar meeting at the University of California, Los Angeles. Garfinkel introduces a set of themes, examples, exercises, and anecdotes that make up his methodological and pedagogical approach to what he calls instructed action. He presents instructed action in terms of a formal pairing of instructions (rules, recipes, direction maps, and so on) and the “lived-work” of following them in specific instances. He outlines how ethnomethodological research not only examines and describes such lived-work in detail but also aims to show that, and how, “the work of reading the text of a description exhibits the phenomenon that the text describes.” This is what he calls the “praxeological validity of instructed action.” He provides examples of a procedure for turning Maurice Merleau-Ponty's philosophical remark, “existence is the process whereby the hitherto meaningless becomes meaningful,” into an instruction for explicating practical achievements in specific settings of action.
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Edited by Michael Lynch and Oskar Lindwall
