Ethnographies of reason
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Ethnographies of reason
（Directions in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis / series editors, David Francis, Stephen Hester）
Routledge, 2016, c2008
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"First published 2008 by Ashgate publishing" -- T.p.verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Written by one of the most eminent scholars in the field, Ethnographies of Reason is a unique book in terms of the studies it presents, the perspective it develops and the research techniques it illustrates. Using concrete case study materials throughout, Eric Livingston offers a fundamentally different, ethnographic approach to the study of skill and reasoning. At the same time, he addresses a much neglected topic in the literature, illustrating practical techniques of ethnomethodological research and showing how such studies are actually conducted. The book is a major contribution to ethnomethodology, to social science methodology and to the study of skill and reasoning more generally.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Introduction: Reasoning in the wild
- Formal reasoning
- Psychological experiments. Exercises and Examples: Tangrams
- Jigsaw puzzles
- A first ethnography
- Phenomenology
- A toolic world, part 1
- Mapping the infinite plane
- Lawlike properties of the prismatic field
- An exercise in origami
- An embodied correspondence
- Straightedge and compass constructions. Projects and Techniques: Sociologies of the witnessable order
- Found objects
- The stack
- The doing of things
- Precise description
- Indirection
- Sketch work
- Structures of inquiry and corpus-relevant skills
- Emergent themes and analogies of practice. Themes and Orientations: Themes, orientations and research directives
- Reflexivity
- The primacy of the social
- The ordinariness of practical action and its production
- Praxeological objects
- The characterization problem. Epilogue
- Appendices
- Index of examples.
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