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Description of  Instructed and Instructive Actions: The Situated Production, Reproduction, and Subversion of Social Order (Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis)

The contributors to this volume take up the theme of instructed and instructive actions. Harold Garfinkel, the founder of ethnomethodology, initiated the study of instructed actions as a way to elucidate the embodied production of social order in real time. Studies of instructions and the actions of following them provide empirical content to the classical theoretical issue of how rules, norms, and other normative guidelines are conveyed, understood, and used for producing social actions and structures. Read more