Routledge Revivals: Art and Artifact in Laboratory Science (1985)
Subtitle: a study of shop work and shop talk in a research laboratory
Edition: First edition.
Series: Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781315111285
Subjects: Neurology; Research; Social aspects; Communication in science; Science
Description: "First published in 1985, this book provides a descriptive study of social activities in a neurosciences laboratory. Based on fieldwork conducted by the author in the laboratory during 1975 and 1976, and taking an ethnomethodological approach, it focuses on the phenomenon of the social accomplishment of natural scientific order. Through the examination of shop work and shop talk in this environment, it identifies an analyzable social basis in the local production of accounts of natural objects in laboratory research. This work will be of interest to students and scholars of ethnomethodology and sociology."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Introduction: methodological issues in the study of scientific work; title: part Part I Ethnographic accounts of shop work; title: chapter 2 The lab setting; title: chapter 3 Projects and the temporalization of lab inquiry; title: chapter 4 An archeology of artifact; title: part Part II Agreement in laboratory shop talk; title: chapter 5 Laboratory shop talk; title: chapter 6 Two notions of agreement; title: chapter 7 Objects and objections: modifications of accounts of objects in laboratory shop talk; title: chapter 8 Conclusion.