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On Formal Structures of Practical Actions

Harold Garfinkel, +1 more
- pp 160-193
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The fact that natural language serves persons doing sociology, laymen or professionals, as circumstances, and as resources of their inquiries, furnishes to the technology of their enquiry and to their practical sociological reasoning its circumstances and its resources as mentioned in this paper.
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The fact that natural language serves persons doing sociology, laymen or professionals, as circumstances, and as resources of their inquiries, furnishes to the technology of their inquiries and to their practical sociological reasoning its circumstances, and its resources. The remedial practices of practical sociological reasoning are aimed at accomplishing a thoroughgoing distinction between objective and indexical expressions with which to make possible the substitution of objective for indexical expressions. A contrast between ethnomethodology's treatment of formal structures and that of constructive analysis is specified by the characteristic that it is as masters of natural language that constructive analysts recommend and understand that their accounts of formal structures provide aims and singular achievements of their technology of research and theory. Remedial formulations are overwhelmingly advocated measures to accomplish proper subject matter in studying formal structures of practical talk and practical reasoning. Formulations are recommended as resources with which the social sciences may accomplish rigorous analyses of practical actions.

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