Exceptional cases are at odds with the typical: they stand out as bizarre and rare. What then could justify their systematic analysis? Elaborating the analytical distinction between anomalies, exceptions and outliers, this paper outlines three potential epistemic contributions of exceptional cases. First, exceptional cases reveal the limits of standard classification categories. In so doing, th...

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Abstract From his 1940–1942 studies of Race, through 1967 study an “inter-sexed” person called Agnes, Garfinkel’s research was always politically engaged . When Garfinkel Parsons’ PhD student at Harvard (1946–1952) and later during a period collaboration with Parsons (1958–1964), both theorized culture as domain social interaction independent from structure resting on its own implicit contract....

This article concerns the smartglass technology Google Glass (GG). Five different settings with different participants have been video recorded and analysed. The article builds upon ethnomethodology and conversation analysis with a focus on how the intersubjective turntaking system is challenged when a participant is using GG. The article presents three overall issues and associated analysis of...

This working paper advocates a methodological approach to the study of street art and graffiti that is based on the documentation of single sites over time. Longitudinal photo-documentation is a form of data collection that allows street art and graffiti to be examined as visual dialogue. By capturing everyday forms of public mark making alongside both more recognizably ‘artistic’ images, and m...

It is an all-too-common lament among sociologists that Erving Goffman, though his writings remain widely read and respected today, failed to spawn an ongoing and cohesive research tradition. His idiosyncratic methods of data collection, the uniqueness of his biographical trajectory, and even his prickly personality have all been invoked to explain the lack of a distinctly Goffmanian school of r...

An ethnomethodological approach to human activity focuses on how members accomplish some sense of orderly reality through interpretive creation. Moving from a flexible theoretical base made possible by the radical ?poque and its suspension of a given, fixed reality with attendent features such as subject-object dualism, perceptual processing, and iionreciprocal causal sequences, the ethnomethod...

Protocols are one of the main organizational resources in molecular biology. They are written instructions that specify ingredients, equipment, and sequences of steps for making technical preparations. Some protocols are published in widely used manuals, while others are hand-written variants used by particular laboratories and individual technicians. It is widely understood, both in molecular ...