Human Studies

, Volume 35, Issue 2, pp 175–192 | Cite as

‘Lecturing’s Work’: A Collaborative Study with Harold Garfinkel

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Abstract

This article discusses some empirical materials from a collaborative study of “lecturing’s work” which the author conducted with Harold Garfinkel. The paper shows Garfinkel at work by presenting a history of the collaboration and discussing what we found. The article also considers some larger implications of our research for understanding how ethnomethodological studies can recover and discover the material regularities of everyday life as they are practiced in distinct settings. The paper reports on a program of ethnomethodological inquiry for discovering in situ what the produced orderliness of any setting’s endogenous tasks, competent courses of action and organizational objects could possibly be. The promise is that just what is identifying of social order, action and meaning is to be found massively, as the routine grounds of everyday activities, and in every case, as something worldly and embodied.

Keywords

Lecturing’s work Study of work Garfinkel 
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Notes

Acknowledgments

I am deeply grateful to Doug Macbeth for his many helpful suggestions on this paper.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Loyola Marymount UniversityLos AngelesUSA

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