Hindmarsh2025
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Hindmarsh2025 |
| Author(s) | Jon Hindmarsh, Nick Llewellyn |
| Title | Ethnomethodology & Organisation Studies |
| Editor(s) | Andrew P. Carlin, Alex Dennis, K. Neil Jenkings, Oskar Lindwall, Michael Mair |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Organisation Studies |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Abingdon, UK |
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| Pages | 381–389 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429323904-38 |
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| Book title | The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology |
| Chapter | 33 |
Abstract
The study of organisational life has a special place in the history of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM/CA). Indeed, some of the seminal studies in the field explored interaction and organisation in legal and medical settings: for instance, Harold Garfinkel’s studies of the deliberations of jurors and the documentary practices of medical practitioners; and Harvey Sacks’ analyses of telephone calls to a suicide prevention centre. Interestingly, the academic discipline of organisation studies has long recognised the contributions of EM/CA and often draws on them to develop new theories and perspectives on work and organisation. However, until very recently, empirical work within EM/CA has had limited uptake within organisation studies. Therefore, in this chapter, we aim to (i) outline a range of intellectual concerns key to organisation studies – notably practice, coordination and sociomateriality – that make ethnomethodological work highly relevant to progress in the field; (ii) spotlight the ways in which recent EM/CA studies, especially video-based studies of work and organising, are contributing to these interests and concerns in significant and distinctive ways; and (iii) chart a series of avenues for further inquiry that might strengthen the mutual development of ethnomethodology and organisation studies.
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