Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
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Series Editors: Stephen Hester, School of Social Sciences,
University of Wales, UK and Dave Francis, Department of Sociology,
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
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Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis are cognate
approaches to the study of social action that together comprise a
major perspective within the contemporary human sciences.
Ethnomethodology focuses upon the production of situated and
ordered social action of all kinds, whilst Conversation Analysis
has a more specific focus on the production and organisation of
talk-in-interaction. Of course, given that so much social action is
conducted in and through talk, there are substantive as well
theoretical continuities between the two approaches. Focusing on
social activities as situated human productions, these approaches
seek to analyse the intelligibility and accountability of social
activities ‘from within’ those activities themselves, using methods
that can be analysed and described. Such methods amount to
aptitudes, skills, knowledge and competencies that members of
society use, rely upon and take for granted in conducting their
affairs across the whole range of social life.
As a result of the methodological rewards consequent upon their
unique analytic approach and attention to the detailed orderliness
of social life, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis have
ramified across a wide range of human science disciplines
throughout the world, including anthropology, social psychology,
linguistics, communication studies and social studies of science
and technology. This series is dedicated to publishing the latest
work in these two fields, including research monographs, edited
collections and theoretical treatises. As such, its volumes are
essential reading for those concerned with the study of human
conduct and aptitudes, the (re)production of social orderliness,
and the methods and aspirations of the social sciences.