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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Ethnomethodology"”.
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Red and white is always right : perspectives from a group of ambulance workers
… School" and up to the contemporary concerns of ethnomethodology, the study of work and occupations has been a central concern of sociological research. Based on data collected by participant observation and unstructured interviewing, this study presents an analytic portrayal of the work routines …
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Testing Gouldner's coming crisis theory: on the state of contemporary sociological theory
… symbolic interactionism), and Harold Garfinkel (ethnomethodology). The findings provide illuminations of both the past and current state of sociological theory.
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Scuds and Patriots: A Content Analysis of Letters to the Editor in The Tennessean and The Washington Post During the Persian Gulf War
… analysis based on symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodology revealed symbol use and use of ethnomethods among writers. Almost 2 5% of the letters were coded as personal attacks. Significant differences were found with the newspaper in which the letter was published and the time period in …
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Conversation analysis in interactive computer system design
… examines in greater detail the perspective of ethnomethodology and the findings of conversation analysis. The expository materials, such as exist in these fields, are recognised as being difficult, especially so for those who may be approaching these topics for the first time, and from other …
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Layering literacies: Computers and peer response in the 21st century
… extant literature of peer response, work done in ethnomethodology, and research done in three first year composition classrooms, I outline the contours and strategies that students use to engage in peer response while using asynchronous computer technologies and speech.</p><p>Ultimately, I argue …
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Doing Spontaneity
… affiliated with it from the perspective of ethnomethodology, as a dynamic social practice emergent from concrete interactions among people. I first consider a variety of existing operationalizations of “spontaneity” in academic research from the perspective of what is ethnomethodologically …
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Positionality Matters: School Choice Decisions Based on Ethnographic Accounts of African American Parents
… study of sociological inquiries, also known as ethnomethodology, can create culturally receptive and comprehensive spaces for empathy of natural human behavior with critical race theory overtones. This type of qualitative inquiry presented is an exemplar of narrative methods that approached …
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Logística de distribuição em uma empresa de materiais de construção de João Pessoa - PB: uma visão etnometológica
… support the theoretical monograph, we used still ethnomethodology as qualitative research technique, considering that the researcher is a member of the company where the research was conducted . We conclude that by identifying the problems of the company regarding customer dissatisfaction towards …
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The archive saga : shepherds of data, documents and code, and their will to order
… and his followers, ie., the study programme of ethnomethodology. It poses a simple question—how do the people involved in these computer-supported actions and interactions do just what they do? In the attempt to answer that question, the enquiry shows that a competent and accountable use of …
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Footprints : interaction history for digital objects
… framework is related to work in anthropology, ethnomethodology, architecture, and urban planning. The framework describes a space of possible history-rich digital systems and gives properties which can be used to analyze existing systems. The space consists of six properties: proxemic/distemic, …
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Black British Identities : The Dialogics of a Hybridity-of-the-Everyday.
… Foucauldian approaches to discourses, Bakhtin, ethnomethodology and discourse analysis. I generate a model for looking at the hybridity of the everyday in talk-in-interaction, which is based on its constitutive components: statement, translation as reflexivity, new addressivity. Using analyses …
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Grammar in Interaction: Polar Interrogative Sequences in Talk-in-Interaction
… sequence. By implementing Conversation Analysis ethnomethodology, the study explores the action and form-related preferences which underpin the structure and the various trajectories of this type of sequence. The study demonstrates that some language-specific features, such as the conventionally …
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Accounting for taste : conversation, categorisation and certification in the sensory assessment of craft brewing
… investigation draws on actor-network theory and ethnomethodology to trace how taste descriptions are assembled and translated into test items in an online exam. The material orderings and classification practices which assemble competition judging are then explored ethnographically by following …
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What's in a laugh? Humour, jokes and laughter in the conversational corpus of the BNC
… framework employed is a combination of ethnomethodology, corpus linguistics and (Labovian) sociolinguistics. <br>The analytical core of the work extends from the study of canned joke performances via a discussion of structural properties in the construction of jokes to a description of …
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Social and epistemological bases of technology transfer: The case of artificial intelligence
… in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and ethnomethodology, I conceptualise technology transfer as involving communication between discursive communities. I develop the idea of 'performance of community' to argue that explanations of research and technology, and readings of those …
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Mobility, *Being, Global Network: A Technography of Laptops and Cellphones
… in greater detail, and in the tradition of ethnomethodology, illustrates it with examples from everyday experience. A modification of interpretive methods combines auto-ethnography with the actor-network theory methodology of following the actants of wireless technology through the …
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Empirical Methods for Evaluating Video-Mediated Collaborative Work
… interaction analysis measures, and ethnomethodology. Recommendations are made regarding the utility and expense of each method with respect to uncovering human factors issues in video-mediated collaboration. It is believed that this research has filled a significant gap in the human …
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Constituting games : an analysis of game rules and game-processes.
… governed by formal rules. Drawing upon ethnomethodology and figurational sociology, this project provides an analysis of the constituting of games and identifies the inadequacies of this conventional formalist wisdom. Applying and elaborating upon Garfinkel's work, two case-studies are …
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Workers Out of Control: Recuperations, Reverberations and Communalism from Argentina to Greece
… interviews and observations with a slow ethnomethodology inspired by the principles of the Extended Case Method, yet with a ‘storyteller’ attitude. From this participatory investigation I could co-theorise the concepts the workers themselves prefigured through their praxes. Starting from …
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Ambiguity in the workplace: some aspects of the negotiation and structuration of asymmetrical relations
… hermeneutics, ordinary language philosophy, ethnomethodology and structuralism; and the development of poststructuralism, with the associated reconceptualisation of subjectobject relationships, reading, and deconstruction. The methodological argument is that social life constitutes a form, of …
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