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This is the first appearance in paper back of one of the major classics of contemporary Sociology. Studies in Ethnomethodology has inspired a wide range of important theoretical and empirical work in the social sciences and linguistics.

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'Garfinkel's arguments are expressed with a power and richness that is singular and imperishable... The renewed availability of these classic studies will give rise to the widest understanding of Garfinkel's seminal arguments.' Times Higher Education Supplement

Table of Contents
1. What is Ethnomethodology?.

2. Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities.

3. Common Sense Knowledge of Social Structures: The Documentary Method of Interpretation in Lay and Professional Fact Finding.

4. Some Rules of Correct Decisions that Jurors Respect.

5. Passing and the Managed Achievement of Sex Status in the Intersexed Person.

6. "Good Organizational Reasons for 'Bad' Clinic Records".

7. Methodological Adequacy in the Quantitative Study of Selection Criteria and Selection Practices in Psychiatric Outpatient Clinics.

8. The Rational Properties of Scientific and Common Sense Activities.

Appendix.

Studies in Ethnomethodology

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 20 September 1984
      ISBN-13 9780745600055
      978-0745600055
      ISBN-10 0745600050
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      Society and culture: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is the first appearance in paper back of one of the major classics of contemporary Sociology. Studies in Ethnomethodology has inspired a wide range of important theoretical and empirical work in the social sciences and linguistics.

      Trade Review
      'Garfinkel's arguments are expressed with a power and richness that is singular and imperishable... The renewed availability of these classic studies will give rise to the widest understanding of Garfinkel's seminal arguments.' Times Higher Education Supplement

      Table of Contents
      1. What is Ethnomethodology?.

      2. Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities.

      3. Common Sense Knowledge of Social Structures: The Documentary Method of Interpretation in Lay and Professional Fact Finding.

      4. Some Rules of Correct Decisions that Jurors Respect.

      5. Passing and the Managed Achievement of Sex Status in the Intersexed Person.

      6. "Good Organizational Reasons for 'Bad' Clinic Records".

      7. Methodological Adequacy in the Quantitative Study of Selection Criteria and Selection Practices in Psychiatric Outpatient Clinics.

      8. The Rational Properties of Scientific and Common Sense Activities.

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