Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the most pressing issues and developments in the field of ethnomethodology, including ethnomethodological conversation analysis, and highlights new and emerging areas for research. With truly authoritative coverage of the state of the art, including current debates, methodological issues, emerging topics for inquiry, new perspectives on established topics, empirical studies, and resources for study, The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology features lively, challenging discussions by a diverse range of international practitioners that will provide readers with unrivalled scholarship on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis for years to come. Sections include "Contexts and New Resources", "Theoretical Orientations", "Study Approaches", "Lay and Professional Analysis" and "Areas of Application". Moving past the focus on Garfinkel’s "discovery" of the field as a domain of study in the 1950s, and acknowledging how ethnomethodology has changed since then by accounting for both the phenomenologically informed and Wittgensteinian emphases in ethnomethodology, this Handbook constitutes an important update on the study and complexity of the topic. As such, The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology will be a valuable point of reference for students and scholars across the fields of sociology, communication and science studies, interaction studies, language and linguistics, among others.

Andrew P. Carlin teaches Library & Information Management at the School of Education, Ulster University, Coleraine (UK). His areas of interest include ethnomethodology and information. He is co-editor of the Routledge book series Directions in Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis. 0000-0001-5138-9384

Alex Dennis is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Magic, Science and Society (Routledge), and co-editor of two special journal issues on ethnography and ethnomethodology. ORCID number 0000-0003-4625-1123

K. Neil Jenkings is a senior researcher at Newcastle University, UK. He has authored and co-authored numerous publications on various social phenomena including health service organisation and decision-making practices, military and society, and rock-climbing. He is co-editor of the Routledge book series Directions in Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis. Orcid: 0000-0003-3513-2823

Oskar Lindwall is a Professor in Communication at the Department of Applied IT, Gothenburg University. His research focuses on instructed actions, embodied skills, and the competent production of social worlds. 0000-0001-6082-4990

Michael Mair is Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool/ Senior Fellow UK National Centre for Research Methods. He is an ethnomethodologist whose work focuses on the politics of accountability in and across different settings as well as methodological practice in the social and natural sciences, including qualitative, quantitative and digital methods as well as experimentation, machine learning and artificial intelligence. 0000-0003-0929-5426