Description
This book outlines the specific character of the ethnomethodological approach to 'play'; that is, to everyday sport and leisure activities that people generally engage in for enjoyment, at home or as a 'hobby'. With chapters on cooking, running, playing music, dancing, rock climbing, sailing, fly fishing and going out for the day as a family, Ethnomethodology at Play provides an introduction to the key conceptual resources drawn upon by ethnomethodology in its studies of these activities, whilst exploring the manner in which people 'work' at their everyday leisure. Demonstrating the breadth of ethnomethodological analysis and showing how no topic is beyond ethnomethodology's fundamental respecification, Ethnomethodology at Play sets out for the serious reader and researcher the precise contribution of ethnomethodology to sociological studies of sport and leisure and ordinary domestic pastimes. As such this groundbreaking volume constitutes a significant contribution to both ethnomethodology and sociology in general, as well as to the sociology of sport and leisure, the sociology of domestic and daily life and cultural studies.
Table of Contents
Overview: Garfinkel's Bastards at Play; I: Domestic Pleasures; 1: Cooking for Pleasure; 2: Reading for Pleasure: Bedtime Stories; II: Having a Hobby; 3: Identifying Birds by their Song; 4: Seeing Fish; 5: All At Sea: The Use of Practical Formalisms in Yachting; 6: Remixing Music Together: The Use and Abuse of Virtual Studio Software as a Hobby; III: ‘Getting Out of the House'; 7: A Day Out in the Country; 8: Playing Dangerously: An Ethnomethodological View upon Rock-Climbing; 9: Distance Running as Play/Work: Training-Together as a Joint Accomplishment; IV: Doing Stuff Together; 10: Playing in Irish Music Sessions; 11: Vine Right, Shimmy, Shimmy! Accomplishing Order* in a Line Dancing Class; 12: Encounters at the Counter: The Relationship between Regulars and Staff
