Directory of Ethnomethodology Resources

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What is ethnomethodology? Ethnomethodology is an autonomous social science. The founder, Harold Garfinkel, worked with Talcott Parsons but left sociology to create a completely new field of empirical research. Ethnomethodology is based on the fine description of interactions. It contains specific studies of conversation, called Conversation Analysis (by Harvey Sacks), focusing among other topics on turn-taking sequences. As ethnomethodologists claim, it is important to understand that Ethnomethodology is not a methodology but a social science. Its name comes from the concept of ethnomethods, standing for methods that actors use to accomplish their everyday tasks (and which ethnomethodologists study).

Resources in This Category

• A Textual Analysis of Harold Garfinkel's Story of Agnes

  http://www.ejhs.org/volume4/agnes.htm
  Article by Leia Kaitlyn Armitage.

• Berard, Tim

  http://www.timberard.info/
  Personal page with cv, links and bibliography.

• Chair in Present-day English Linguistics

  http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/couper/oldHP/lehre/index-e.html
  Courses by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen on Conversation Analysis, program, readings and references.

• Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW)

  http://link.springer.com/journal/10606
  Papers and online journal.

• Conversation Analysis Tutorial

  http://homepages.lboro.ac.uk/~ssca1/sitemenu.htm
  An introduction to transcription and analysis in the CA tradition. Video and audio clips are used to take the student through theoretical and practical issues in basic CA work.

• Crabtree, Andy

  http://www.andy-crabtree.com/
  Research, publications (PDF), and recent ethnographic fieldwork.

• Department of Sociology of Chicago

  http://ssr1.uchicago.edu/
  Bibliographies and classical articles in sociology, anthropology and ethnomethodology.

• Department of Sociology of Lancaster University

  http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/sociology/
  Science Studies, Ethnography of Computer-Supporter Cooperative Work (CSCW), Transcripts of Talk and Ethnomethodological Papers by Michel Callon, John A Hughes, Bruno Latour, John Law, Wes Sharrock, Lucy Suchman.

• Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis

  http://www.paultenhave.nl/EMCA.htm
  EM/CA Information, news and articles collected by Paul Ten Have.

• Human Studies

  http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/10746
  Quarterly journal. Presentation, free sample and guidelines to authors.

• Human-Centered Computing

  http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~cs215/
  Resources from the course on Conversation Analysis by Richard Alterman.

• Kelly, Russell

  http://ethnomethodologist.tripod.com/ethnomethodologyatwork/
  Work in progress, papers, definition and CV.

• Labeling Theory and Ethnomethodology

  http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/200/labeling.html
  Robert Keel compares Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnomethodological account to Deviance and Social Control.

• Mambila Divination

  http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/ERA/Divination/Garf/
  Article by David Zeitlyn in Man Revue.

• Mixed Reality Laboratory

  http://www.mrl.nott.ac.uk/
  Studies in the field of computer uses, from work to leisure(University of Nottingham).

• Navigation for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis

  http://www.emca.net/
  Links and bibliography.

• Schegloff, Emanuel

  http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/schegloff/
  Sound-assisted practical guide to transcription for conversation analysis by one of his founder.

• Sociology in University of California at Los Ansgeles (UCLA)

  http://www.sociology.ucla.edu/
  Department of Harold Garfinkel, John Heritage, Emanuel Schegloff and Melvin Pollner.

• Varenne, Hervé

  http://varenne.tc.columbia.edu/
  Presents his teaching and research work in anthropology with a special focus on culture theory, school, family in an ethnomethodological fashion.

• Virtual Society

  http://virtualsociety.sbs.ox.ac.uk/
  Research Program directed by Steve Woolgar. Projects, resources and events.

• Work Practice & Technology - The next 20 years of research (WPT Fest)

  http://www.workpractice.com/wpt-fest/
  Program of the symposium, photos and discussion by Lucy Suchman.

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