The Ethnomethodology Program: Legacies and Prospects [Paperback]

Since Harold Garfinkel'sStudies in Ethnomethodologywas first published over 50 years ago, there has been a substantial amount of ethnomethodological (EM) research in many different areas from Conversation Analysis to legal studies. This book covers the wide range of EM influences, with chapters from experts in these theoretical and empirical fields. In doing so, it not only draws attention to past accomplishments in EM research, but also suggests how these accomplishments set the table for future endeavors in the human sciences.It's been more than fifty years since Harold Garfinkel created the field of ethnomethodology--a discipline that offers a new way of understanding how people make sense of their everyday world. Since his bookStudies in Ethnomethodologypublished in 1967, there has been a substantial--although often subterranean--growth in ethnomethodological (EM) work. Studies in and appreciation of ethnomethodological work continue to grow, but the breadth and penetration of his insights and inspiration for ongoing research have yet to secure their full measure of recognition.This volume celebrates Harold Garfinkel's enormous contributions to sociology and conversation analysis, exploring how ethnomethodology emerged, the empirical consequences of Garfinkel's work, and the significant contemporary work that has resulted from it. Douglas W. Maynard and John Heritage bring together experts from a wide range of theoretical and empirical areas to create the first comprehensive collection of work on EM that encompasses its role in studies of work, in Conversation Analysis, and in other subdisciplines. Chapters highlight ethnomethodology's distinctive forms of ethnographic inquiry and its influences on a host of substantive domains including legal environments, science and technology, workplace and organizational inquiries, survey research, social problems and deviance, and disability and atypical interaction. The book explains how EM especially lK