Macbeth2025
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Macbeth2025 |
| Author(s) | Douglas Macbeth |
| Title | EMCA's Phenomena of Study: A Brief Lexicon |
| 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 | 185–195 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429323904-18 |
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| Book title | The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology |
| Chapter | 15 |
Abstract
Ethnomethodology is a puzzle for many, and part of the difficulty has to do with how the very idea of social science is embedded in our common culture. Whether as clinical diagnoses, political polling, or televised expertise, social science is well known to us. It is part of our certainties, part of what any modern cultural member knows, and that we know it “already” makes encounters with ethnomethodology puzzling. A good deal of the puzzle has to do with “methods” and “methodologies”. The privileged station of social science is methodological, essentially, and Harold Garfinkel’s extraordinary innovation was not only to take interest in everyday life, but to find there methodologies too, and centrally methods of understanding. These methods are central to ethnomethodology’s phenomena of study. As it turns out, they are also indispensable methodologies of social science. In this way, ethnomethodology closes the distance between social science and everyday worlds, and it puzzles us, as it invites us to take interest in them all.
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