[Xmca-l] Re: xmca new discussion started

[Wolff-Michael Roth]

Martin,
I would have thought that ethno*methodology* is the study of the methods,
the work, people use to make social orders visible. In this, it is very
different from all other research, qualitative and quantitative. Garfinkel
describes it as *incommensurably different *from, among others,
interpretive studies of social life. He distinguishes EM from formal
analytic studies, all those that have to specify methods because these
methods are different from the methods people use in everyday life. EM does
not dispute the results of other research; its interests are completely
elsewhere.
Practically, EM is interested in change if it is what people do; it is not
interested in the change but how people do make change and the required
work visible to each other.
Michael


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On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Alfredo Jornet Gil <a.j.gil@iped.uio.no>
wrote:

> Larry, I also was thinking that visibility, in other EM/CA studies also as
> instructability, speaks to change. A
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> on behalf of Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com>
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> Martin,
> This sentence,
> “Creating and sustaining order always requires change”
> And therefore makes visible change as the norm
> Seems to be pregnant with an evocative enacting of possibility for novel
> kinds of social fabric[continuing with the weaving theme]
>
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> From: Alfredo Jornet Gil
> Sent: June 1, 2017 4:18 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: xmca new discussion started
>
> Yes, I agree with what you say. I guess I used the word change where I
> meant development. So I am going to change my question:
>
> What do and could do researchers concerned with development (social,
> personal) with EM.
>
> You recently shared with us a beautiful book on the topic of development.
> How does EM feature in it?
> Alfredo
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> on behalf of Martin John Packer <mpacker@uniandes.edu.co>
> Sent: 02 June 2017 00:40
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> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: xmca new discussion started
>
> Hi Alfredo,
>
> I’ve always thought that EM deals very well with change, because it does
> not treat stasis as the norm. EM is the study of the methods that people
> (actants) employ to create and sustain order, various kinds of order.
> Creating and sustaining order always requires change.
>
> Martin
>
>
>
> On Jun 1, 2017, at 5:24 PM, Alfredo Jornet Gil <a.j.gil@iped.uio.no
> <mailto:a.j.gil@iped.uio.no>> wrote:
>
> I personally find ethnomethodology EM fascinating and a powerful approach
> to stick the realities of social life; but I always wondered what does EM
> do with questions of change.
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