What is ethnomethodology?
Ethnomethodology is an autonomous social science.
The founder, Harold Garfinkel, worked with Talcott Parsons but left sociology to create a completely new field of empirical research.
Ethnomethodology is based on the fine description of interactions. It contains specific studies of conversation, called Conversation Analysis (by Harvey Sacks), focusing among other topics on turn-taking sequences.
As ethnomethodologists claim, it is important to understand that Ethnomethodology is not a methodology but a social science. Its name comes from the concept of ethnomethods, standing for methods that actors use to accomplish their everyday tasks (and which ethnomethodologists study).
Science Studies, Ethnography of Computer-Supporter Cooperative Work (CSCW), Transcripts of Talk and Ethnomethodological Papers by Michel Callon, John A Hughes, Bruno Latour, John Law, Wes Sharrock, Lucy Suchman. www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology
Presents his teaching and research work in anthropology with a special focus on culture theory, school, family in an ethnomethodological fashion. varenne.tc.columbia.edu
International Conference on Discourse Practices in, around and about the Workplace, featuring Jean Widmer, Aaron Cicourel and Diana Slade. Abstracts in Conversation Analysis. bank.rug.ac.be/ttaw2000
Danish network focusing on Spoken Language and Conversation Analysis; it proposes publications, an events calendar and a mailing list and a project of Spoken-Language Database, whose one of the transcription methods used is the Computerized Language ANaly www.conversation-analysis.net
This european scientific network focusing on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) presents its partners, results and articles and bibliography. www-sv.cict.fr/cotcos
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