Ethnographies of reason

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Ethnographies of reason

Eric Livingston

(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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Details

  • NCID
    BC02232093
  • ISBN
    • 9781138269620
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 270 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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