Full Description
This volume includes an unpublished manuscript and selected portions of five seminars by Harold Garfinkel - the founder of ethnomethodology - on the topic of practices in the natural sciences and mathematics. The volume provides a coherent and sustained account of his program for the study of ordinary and specialized social actions. Presenting broader theoretical and methodological initiatives, as well as discussions and summaries of exemplary studies of social phenomena within and beyond the sciences, this work dates to the period in the 1980s during which the field of Science and Technology Studies was taking shape, with ethnomethodological studies of scientific practice forming a major part of its development at the time. Aside from their historical importance, the manuscript and seminars present a distinctive perspective on the natural and social sciences that remains highly original and pertinent to research on science, social science, and everyday life today. Offering critical insights and proposals relating to developments in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, this volume will appeal to scholars of Sociology and Science and Technology Studies with interests in the work of Garfinkel.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Contents
Editor's Introduction Part I: Respecifying the Natural Sciences as Discovering Sciences of Practical Action, I & II: Doing so Ethnographically by Administering a Schedule of Contingencies in Discussions with Laboratory Scientists and by Hanging Around their Laboratories Editor's Introduction to Part I Part I: Respecifying the Natural Sciences as Discovering Sciences of Practical Action, I & II: Doing so Ethnographically by Administering a Schedule of Contingencies in Discussions with Laboratory Scientists and by Hanging Around their Laboratories Appendix I: Postscript and Preface Appendix II: Some Notes on the Play of Basketball in its Circumstantial Detail Appendix III: Detail* Appendix IV: Collections of Studies I-VII Respecifying The Natural Sciences As Discovering Sciences Of Practical Action Acknowledgements, Notes and References to Part I Part II: Discovering Work of the Sciences: Five seminars on the work of the discovering sciences, Department of Sociology, UCLA. (May - July 1980) Editor's Introduction to Part II Seminar 1 (May 22, 1980), convened by Harold Garfinkel Seminar 2 (May 27, 1980), convened by Harold Garfinkel Seminar 3 (June 3, 1980), convened by Harold Garfinkel Seminar 4 (June 19, 1980), convened by Harold Garfinkel Seminar 5 (July 1, 1980), convened by Harold Garfinkel Notes and References to Part II
