Ethnographies of Reason
Series: Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: October 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780754671060
Subjects: Ethnomethodology -- Research; Social Sciences -- Methodology
Description: Written by one of the most eminent scholars in the field, "Ethnographies of Reason" is a unique book in terms of the studies it presents, the perspective it develops and the research techniques it illustrates. Using concrete case study materials throughout, Eric Livingston offers a fundamentally different, ethnographic approach to the study of skill and reasoning. At the same time, he addresses a much neglected topic in the literature, illustrating practical techniques of ethnomethodological research and showing how such studies are actually conducted. The book is a major contribution to ethnomethodology, to social science methodology and to the study of skill and reasoning more generally.
Table of contents: title: Reasoning in the Wild; title: Formal Reasoning; title: Psychological Experiments