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Ethnographies of reason
- Title
- Ethnographies of reason / Eric Livingston.
- Author
- Livingston, Eric.
- Publication
- Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HM481 .L58 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 270 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Using concrete case study materials throughout, this book offers a fundamentally different, ethnographic approach to the study of skill and reasoning. At the same time, it addresses a much neglected topic in literature by illustrating practical techniques of ethnomethodological research and showing how such studies are conducted.
- Series Statement
- Directions in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis
- Uniform Title
- Directions in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-268) and index.
- Contents
- Reasoning in the Wild -- Formal Reasoning -- Psychological Experiments -- Tangrams -- Jigsaw Puzzles -- First Ethnography -- Phenomenology -- Toolic World, Part I -- Mapping the Infinite Plane -- Lawlike Properties of the Prismatic Field -- Exercise in Origami -- Embodied Correspondence -- Straightedge and Compass Constructions -- Sociologies of the Witnessable Order -- Found Objects -- Stack -- Doing of Things -- Precise Description -- Indirection -- Sketch Work -- Structures of Inquiry and Corpus-Relevant Skills -- Emergent Themes and Analogies of Practice -- Themes, Orientations, and Research Directives -- Reflexivity -- Primacy of the Social -- Ordinariness of Practical Action and its Production -- Praxeological Objects -- Characterization Problem.
- ISBN
- 9780754671060
- 0754671062
- LCCN
- 2008008218
- OCLC
- ocn212908749
- 212908749
- SCSB-8799095
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library