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Picking Over Garfinkel’s Corpse (Part 1 of 2)

A review of Livingston, E. (2024) ‘Ethnomethodology’s Broken Promise,’ Human Studies https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-024-09770-1 The title of Livingston’s paper should read ‘Garfinkel’s broken promise’. EM has produced many studies of the type which Livingston complains are missing from Garfinkel’s oeuvre, some produced by Livingston himself. Nevertheless, Livingston is apparently upset that Garfinkel himself produced none. It is difficult
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Picking Over Garfinkel’s Corpse (Part 2 of 2)

A review of Livingston, E. (2024) ‘Ethnomethodology’s Broken Promise,’ Human Studies https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-024-09770-1 Livingston illustrates what he proposes to be the failure of Garfinkel’s studies primarily with reference to two chapters of Ethnomethodology’s Program, and the paper more recently edited by Lynch (Garfinkel 2022). An interesting feature of all these studies is that they were published
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