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The writings of Harold Garfinkel have had a major impact on the social sciences and linguistics. This book offers a systematic and innovative analysis of his theories and of the ethnomethodological movement which he has inspired.It is the only full-length study focused on the writings of Harold Garfinkel and will be essential reading for all those concerned with understanding and evaluating one of the most radically original social scientists of recent times

This paper argues, against Phillips, that the approach to descriptive accounts developed in ethnomethodological studies derives neither from a substantive commitment to the `uniqueness of situations' nor from sceptical considerations about the nature of human experiential, linguistic, or conceptual resources. It is suggested that a concern with the indefiniteness of human descriptive resources is an important point of convergence between the work of Garfinkel and Wittgenstein. It is further argued that, whilst this indefiniteness is not usually a source of practical descriptive difficulty, the supposition of such indefiniteness is a condition for the theoretical treatment of conflicting descriptions, the flexibility of human descriptive resources and their novel applicability together with related problems concerning personal, cultural, and linguistic change, cultural and linguistic relativism etc. which would be unintelligible from the standpoint of a finite rule-based semantic and interactional theory. This position is distinguished from `rule scepticism' and is suggested to enable the consideration of co-determinative and interactive rule operations. The claim that knowledge of language should be considered in abstraction from knowledge of the world is contested throughout.

This four-volume collection, containing all new articles and framed by a new contextualising introductory chapter, includes works focussing on areas which were in their infancy at the publication of this set's predecessor, and topics which have gained much interest in the field over the past decade

This much-needed work examines the place of the news interview in Anglo-American society as well as its historical development. Through analyses of well-known interviews, the book explores the relationship between journalists and public figures, and reveals the tensions beneath the surface of the nightly news