Instructed and Instructive Actions: The Situated Production, Reproduction, and Subversion of Social Order (Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis)

By: Michael Lynch and Oskar Lindwall

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Synopsis: The contributors to this volume take up the theme of instructed and instructive actions. Harold Garfinkel, the founder of ethnomethodology, initiated the study of instructed actions as a way to elucidate the embodied production of social order in real time. Studies of instructions and the actions of following them provide empirical content to the classical theoretical issue of how rules, norms, and other normative guidelines are conveyed, understood, and used for producing social actions and structures. The studies in this volume address novel technologies of instructed action and non-obvious ways in which ordinary actions turn out to be instructive for participants in immediate situations of action and interaction. In some cases, the studies address specialized practical, artistic, and recreational activities, in others they address commonplace modes of action and interaction. In all cases they focus on how the manifest organization of specific activities are organized with and without explicitly formulated instructions. This book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in ethnomethodological approaches to research by contributing to understandings of how specific actions are instructed and instructive in the circumstances in which they are produced.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 298 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000981711
Related ISBNs:: 9781032230719, 9781003279235, 9781032245522
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 11/30/23
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Michael Lynch and Oskar Lindwall
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Michael Lynch
Edited by:: Oskar Lindwall