This paper addresses the problem of achieving adequate empirical accounts of culture, motivation and attitudes in construction management research. The usual association of adequacy with objectivity, causality and quantification is criticised and it is suggested that the concept of verstehen provides an alternative guide to study. Within this conception, explanations are not primarily causal in...

Cast as a manifesto, this chapter presents a set of foundational principles for conducting “video research” within the learning sciences. Our proposed approach draws chiefly upon the literature and methodology of Conversation Analysis (CA). Conversation Analysis developed out of and shares the thematic interests of the broader field of inquiry known as Ethnomethodology (EM). EM is centrally con...

This paper presents a case study of two on-line workshops conducted using a real-time distributed, web based communication technology, OfficeHoursLive. The study is intended to introduce, ethnomethodology, a different perspective for studying CSCL. Ethnomethodogical studies place a particular emphasis on studying the details of situated activity as-it-happens. For the accomplishment of collabor...

In a speech community, people utilize their communicative competence which they have acquired from their society as part of their distinctive sociolinguistic identity. They negotiate and share meanings, because they have commonsense knowledge about the world, and have universal practical reasoning. Their commonsense knowledge is embodied in their language. Thus, not only does social life depend...