Carlin2025c
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Carlin2025c |
| Author(s) | Andrew P. Carlin, Rod Watson, Sheena Murdoch |
| Title | The Emergence of Ethnomethodology as a Collaborative Accomplishment |
| Editor(s) | Andrew P. Carlin, Alex Dennis, K. Neil Jenkings, Oskar Lindwall, Michael Mair |
| Tag(s) | EMCA |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Abingdon, UK |
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| Pages | 80–90 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429323904-8 |
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| Book title | The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology |
| Chapter | 7 |
Abstract
This chapter initiates the study of ethnomethodology as a “collective corpus”. Harold Garfinkel was the founder and intellectual leader of ethnomethodology. Garfinkel was a participant in a variety of discipline and project-based academic circles throughout his career, with high-level contact with representatives in various fields, such as anthropology, information science, psychiatry, and sociology. We suggest that the growing literature on Garfinkel serves what he called a “pedagogic interest” but fails to account for the social organisation of the development of ethnomethodology. The argument of this chapter is not that too much credit has been given to Garfinkel regarding the development of ethnomethodology; but that too little credit has been given to Garfinkel’s interlocutors. Garfinkel himself, however, was effusive in acknowledging others’ contributions and assiduous in according credit. Taking the development of ethnomethodology as a collaborative accomplishment works to undercut characterisations of Garfinkel as a unique individual: whether characterisations seek to valorise or ironicise Garfinkel, these are based on ad hominem methods. We prosecute our argument by considering Aaron Cicourel, Edward Rose, and David Sudnow, as just three contributors who had a reciprocal influence on Garfinkel. As such, we suggest that the study of the emergence of ethnomethodological inquiries requires a broader purview.
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