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The Practical Accomplishment of Everyday Activities Without Sight
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

The Practical Accomplishment of Everyday Activities Without Sight

This book is about the everyday life of people with visual impairment or blindness. Using video ethnographic methods and ethnomethodological conversation analysis, it unpacks the practical accomplishments of everyday activities such as navigating in public space, identifying objects and obstacles, being included in workplace activities, interacting with guide dogs, or interacting in museums or classes in school. Navigation, social inclusion, and the world of touch constitute key phenomena that are affected by visual impairment and which we study in this book. Whereas sighted people use their sight for navigating, for figuring out the location of co-participants and the embodied cues they pro...

The Social Self and Everyday Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

The Social Self and Everyday Life

An engaging text that enables readers to understand the world through symbolic interactionism This lively and accessible book offers an introduction to sociological social psychology through the lens of symbolic interactionism. It provides students with an accessible understanding of this perspective to illuminate their worlds and deepen their knowledge of other people’s lives, as well as their own. Written by noted experts in the field, the book explores the core concepts of social psychology and examines a collection of captivating empirical studies. The book also highlights everyday life—putting the focus on the issues and concerns that are most relevant to the readers’ social conte...

All Hands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 848

All Hands

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1975
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Respecifying Lab Ethnography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Respecifying Lab Ethnography

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Respecifying Lab Ethnography delivers the first ethnomethodological study of current experimental physics in action, describing the disciplinary orientation of lab work and exploring the discipline in its social order, formal stringency and skilful performance - in situ and in vivo. Drawing upon extensive participant observation, this book articulates and draws upon two major strands of ethnomethodological inquiry: reflexive ethnography and video analysis. In bringing together these two approaches, which have hitherto existed in parallel, Respecifying Lab Ethnography introduces a practice-based video analysis. In doing so, the book recasts conventional distinctions to shed fresh light on methodological issues surrounding the descriptive investigation of social practices more broadly. An engaged and innovative study of the encountered worksite, this book will appeal not only to sociologists with interests in ethnomethodology and the sociology of work, but also to scholars of science and technology studies and those working in the fields of ethnography and social science methodology.

The Local Configuration of New Research Fields
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

The Local Configuration of New Research Fields

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-27
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  • Publisher: Springer

This new Yearbook addresses the question of how policy, place, and organization are made to matter for a new research field to emerge. Bringing together leading historians, sociologists, and organizational researchers on science and technology, the volume answers this question by offering in-depth case studies and comparative perspectives on multiple research fields in their nascent stage, including molecular biology and materials science, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology. The Yearbook brings to bear the lessons of constructivist ethnography and the “practice turn” in Science and Technology Studies (STS) more broadly on the qualitative, comparative, and critical inquiry of new research fields. In doing so, it offers unprecedented insights into the complex interplay of national research policies, regional clusters, particular research institutions, and novel research practices in and for any emerging field of (techno-)science. It systematically investigates national and regional differences, including the variable mobilization of such differences, and probes them for organizational topicality and policy relevance.

Little Failures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 146

Little Failures

Failure hurts! It’s painful and can feel damaging, but the truth is failure is the gateway to success, innovation, creativity, learning, and growth. Like everyone who’s living and growing, we’ve all experienced the pain of failure, and author Alisha Wielfaert is no exception. But while her experience with failure may not be special, she’s realized that her perspective on how to embrace failure as the road to resilience, creativity, and innovation is unique. Within the pages of this book, you’ll discover that Little Failures, even when painful, can be a portal to resilience and so much more. You’ll learn how to distill the lessons of failures in a tangible way and take recovering actions that will propel you not just forward but also into the next right direction. Ultimately, you should see this book as a guide to help you navigate our own failures when they happen and turn them into fuel. If you are dreaming of doing something but fear of failure is keeping you from going after it, or if you’re having a difficult time getting over a failure, then Little Failures is the perfect book to have in your hands. Are you ready to make a change?

Medical and Healthcare Interactions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

Medical and Healthcare Interactions

Presenting a series of empirical studies by scholars working with approaches from ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, Medical and Healthcare Interactions studies real-life work and training encounters among medical and healthcare professionals and trainees or between professionals and patients. Using video analysis and detailed description, it considers the methods and procedures through which professionals, trainees, and patients produce actions and interpret those of others, exploring questions of member competence and socialization within situated courses of interaction. The book offers fruitful contributions for training and education in the field of healthcare and will appeal to scholars in the human and social sciences with interests in interaction, ethnomethodology, and conversation analysis. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 588

The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the most pressing issues and developments in the field of ethnomethodology, including ethnomethodological conversation analysis, and highlights new and emerging areas for research. With truly authoritative coverage of the state of the art, including current debates, methodological issues, emerging topics for inquiry, new perspectives on established topics, empirical studies, and resources for study, The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology features lively, challenging discussions by a diverse range of international practitioners that will provide readers with unrivalled scholarship on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis fo...

Our Multi-National Heritage to Adam, Ancestors of Merlene Hutto Byars, Volume 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 478

Our Multi-National Heritage to Adam, Ancestors of Merlene Hutto Byars, Volume 1

This book is the result of information about the five generations of ancestry for the families of Esther Ray McClintock, Frank Pickens Williams, and Merlene Faye Hutto Byars (Klutzow) being handed down to them by their parents and also because Esther, Pickens and Merlene have explored cemeteries in many states and in Europe. - Xlibris Podcast Part 1: http://www.xlibrispodcasts.com/our-multi-national-heritage-to-adam-1 - Xlibris Podcast Part 3: http://www.xlibrispodcasts.com/our-multi-national-heritage-to-adam-3 - Xlibris Podcast Part 5: http://www.xlibrispodcasts.com/our-multi-national-heritage-to-adam-5

Repair Work Ethnographies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 359

Repair Work Ethnographies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-12-14
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  • Publisher: Springer

This pioneering book homes in on repair as an everyday practice. Bringing together exemplary ethnographies of repair work around the world, it examines the politics of repair, its work settings and intricate networks, in and across a wide range of situations, lay and professional. The book evidences the topical relevance of situated inquiry into breakdown, repair, and maintenance for engaging with the contemporary world more broadly. Airplanes and artworks, bicycles and buildings, cars and computers, medical devices and mobile phones, as virtually any commodity, infrastructure or technical artifact, have in common their occasional breakdown, if not inbuilt obsolescence. Hence the point and purpose of closely examining how and when they are fixed.