ISBN:
9781317064930
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (297 pages)
Series Statement:
Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Parallel Title:
Print version Sormani, Philippe Respecifying Lab Ethnography : An Ethnomethodological Study of Experimental Physics
DDC:
305.8001
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Transcripts -- List of Excerpts -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I Sociological Reasoning: Seeing Social Order -- 1 STM of CSC: Its Measurement Motive in and as Project Work -- 2 Learning to Listen, Learning to Observe -- II Self-instruction: From âSeeingâ to âDoingâ -- 3 Do it Yourself! Self-instruction in STM, Trials and Tribulations in Topography -- III Research Practice: Doing Microscopic Experiments -- 4 From Instructional Activity to Expert Practice: Tutorials in STM and Low-Temperature STM of CSC -- 5 Unique Adequacy: The Local Production of a Physics Discovery* -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography
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