This module will provide students with an understanding of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis as radical approaches to the study of social practices grounded in work on and with interactional data. It will be of particular interest to students and researchers working across the social sciences and beyond with a specific interest in studying practice and interaction.

(LO1) This module will provide an overview of ethnmethodology and conversation analysis as dynamic, analytically innovative and intellectually adventurous fields of research.

(LO2) It will enable students to trace the substantial influence ethnomethodology and conversation analysis continue to have in sociology, anthropology, psychology, science and technology studies, and other disciplines besides.

(LO3) Students who take this module will acquire an understanding of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis as radical approaches to the study of social practices, and will do so in the course of practical work on and with interactional data.

(LO4) As the only postgraduate short course in the UK focusing on ethnomethodology specifically, it presents a unique opportunity for students to learn about an alternative way of approaching social inquiry, one grounded in 'radical' empirical studies.

(S1) Reading skills

(S2) Writing skills

(S3) Data collection skills

(S4) Transcribing/capturing skills

(S5) Anaytic skills

Classic and contemporary ethnomethodological and conversation analytic research: temporal orders of practical action and reasoning
The Manchester School of Ethnomethodology: ordinary language philosophy, phenomenology and fieldwork
Ethnomethodological studies of work
Mind and society, politics and society, science and society, technology and society and more: heterogeneous investigations of heterogeneous activities
Respecifying, misreading and repurposing social inquiry

Teaching Method 1 - Lecture
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Notes: Lectures will cover a diverse range of topics examined as part of ethnomethodological and conversation analytic research and explore why they constitute radical forms of social inquiry.

Teaching Method 2 - Tutorial
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Notes: The 'tutorial' element will focus on addressing analytic problems through work with interactional data.

Teaching Method 3 - Laboratory Work
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Notes: The 'practical' element will focus on working up data for analysis, with an emphasis on, e.g., modes of transcription and their affordances.

Teaching Method 4 - Field Work
Description:
Attendance Recorded: Not yet decided
Notes: Fieldwork sessions will focus on the process of identifying data for analysis.