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Research paper thumbnail of Year Simmel Rose Parsons Schutz Goffman Sacks Harvard Chicago 1858 Simmel born 1863 GHMead born Dept. of Sociology created 1894 WI Thomas arrived Chicago 1899 Schutz born

Research paper thumbnail of Playing games with postmodernism: contemporary social change, a radical change to identity? and 'belonging'

This paper presents a critique of the intellectual manoeuvring in the creation of 'postmodernity'... more This paper presents a critique of the intellectual manoeuvring in the creation of 'postmodernity' as a replacement for 'post-industrial' or 'post-capitalist' society. The creation required more than a name. A new social theory was posited to ground the discovery of this new World. This social theory required a process of social change. The social change was defined by its impact, which, in turn, constitutes that change. The sociological locus of the change is 'identity'. The location of change was the 'nation' or 'community' to which identity belongs. Identity's belonging-to constitutes that to which identity belongs. 'Nation' and 'community' are constituted in the agency of identity's belonging. These manoeuvres are glossed by posing the question as one of the degree of impact of the change. How radical was the impact of change on identity? So how radical could identity's impact be in constituting postmodernity? This raises questions about the relation of the present, the contemporary, Now, with the past, then, before. Claims were laid to the origin, ownership and affiliation of concepts. The resulting interdependence of concepts needs some clarification, some untangling. To disentangle the concept 'contemporary' from 'social change' involves defining the late twentieth century (post-1945?, post-1963? or, in England, post-1979?) as 'contemporary' relative to 'post-industrial' or in distinguishing 'modernity' from 'post-modernity'. Then further clarification defines 'social change.' And a further necessary dimension 'radical social change'. 'Identity' and 'belonging' are the defining features of the process of 'social change' which becomes 'radical' by the impact made on or the 'measure' of the impact on identity of social change.

Research paper thumbnail of GSESSAY.DOC

Georg Simmel, translation history and biography.

Research paper thumbnail of "It's Over There. Sit Down." Indexicality, The Mundane, The Ordinary and The Everyday, and Much, Much More

Human Studies

Setting out to understand "indexicality" and its significance in Ethnomethodology, it is first ne... more Setting out to understand "indexicality" and its significance in Ethnomethodology, it is first necessary to trace the history of the ideas of Harold Garfinkel. From his early commitment to find "order" in his Harvard dissertation, Garfinkel finds himself in California defending Parsons' Structural Functionalism while confronting Goffman and Symbolic Interactionism, based in Simmelian, Schützian Sociology. From the audience of students shared with Goffman, Garfinkel puts aside the "situation" of Symbolic Interaction in favour of a process, "Indexicality", abandoning theorising in favour of ethnomethodology as the means to understand "order*". This paper, then, demonstrates how indexicality works and proposes completing the tasks that Garfinkel set out in the Studies to disclose the taken-for-granted, the left out, bounded by caveats like No-Time-Out and For-all-practical purposes.

Research paper thumbnail of Garfinkel Chapter Sept 2017.doc

Questions originality of Garfinkel's ideas as parasitical on co-authors from Harvard through Cali... more Questions originality of Garfinkel's ideas as parasitical on co-authors from Harvard through California. Is Ethnomethodology actually a creation of several others compiled by Garfinkel into the Studies and other papers.

Papers by Russell Kelly

Research paper thumbnail of Simmel, Georg (1858-1918)

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Feb 15, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of One step forward and two steps back: Woolgar, reflexivity, qualitative research and a line dancing class

Research paper thumbnail of Simmel, Georg (1858-1918)

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Oct 26, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of A Contrast in Approach and Outcome in Attempts to Break New Ground

Symbolic Interaction, Oct 1, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of How to Do Sociological, Nursing and Health Care Research: Further Proof that Qualitative Research is the Road to Follow

Symbolic Interaction, Sep 26, 2016

At the core of this book is an idea, a theory, and a method of study: the illness or care traject... more At the core of this book is an idea, a theory, and a method of study: the illness or care trajectory. The idea then promotes applications as improvements in nursing practice. In Allen's hands, the core concept shifts from Strauss et al.'s (1982) "illness trajectory" to the notion of a care trajectory as a process, as a negotiated order which is "emergent" that never reaches an existential state. It does not become an object, a system, or a structure. These forms only exist in the minds of theorists, researchers, and sociologists. But Allen seems uncomfortable with this constructivist, relativist position. She resolves her discomfort with reference to Actor Network Theory (ANT). This reference to a theory reinforces basic teaching in Nurse Education and research methods that all research must follow the Popperian model and should be some kind of test of a deducted proposition from a stated theory. The nurse's own, theory-methodological position is not enough without reference and support from some higher level source. Midwives, for example, seem to be fixated on "Complexity Theory" which rests on the great profundity that the world is a complex place. ANT has a similar standing, the social world is comprised of lots of actors who interact with others in networks. Allen, as in several places in the book, would do well to abandon this last 30 years of "social theory" and return to the original sources of her work, Glaser and Strauss's (1968) illness trajectory, Egon Bittner's organization theory, Sudnow's (1967) methodological approach in "Passing On" and the collected works of Erving Goffman. Clearly the work rests directly on these sources but, like proposition testing, nurses also seem to fixate on only referencing recent sources, that is, less than 5 to 10 years old. The reasons for her discomfort rests on another problem that emerges frequently through this book although it does not necessarily distract from its overall

Research paper thumbnail of Foucault, Michel (1926–1984)

Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Categorization: Members' Practices or Sociologists' Reification? Which Way Not to Go!

Symbolic Interaction, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Book review: PER LINELL, Approaching Dialogue: Talk, Interaction and Contexts in Dialogical Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1998. 347 pp

Discourse Studies, 2002

Attention to detail is the hallmark of this work. The problem is that there is so much detail dra... more Attention to detail is the hallmark of this work. The problem is that there is so much detail drawn from such a variety of disparate approaches, that big issues are lost or dissolved in the detail. Every detail of discourse analysis, interactional linguistics and conversation ...

Research paper thumbnail of How to Do Sociological, Nursing and Health Care Research: Further Proof that Qualitative Research is the Road to Follow

Research paper thumbnail of “It’s Over There. Sit Down.” Indexicality, The Mundane, The Ordinary and The Everyday, and Much, Much More

Human Studies

Garfinkel prefaces the Studies with: … the objective reality of social facts as an ongoing accomp... more Garfinkel prefaces the Studies with: … the objective reality of social facts as an ongoing accomplishment of the concerted activities of daily life, with the ordinary, artful ways of that accomplishment being by members known, used, and taken for granted, is, for members doing sociology, a fundamental phenomenon. .. it is the prevailing topic for ethnomethodological study. p. vii. "For members doing sociology", that is, the "ongoing accomplishment of the concerted activities of daily life" is a fundamental phenomenon, is the prevailing topic for ethnomethodological study, is what sociologists should do. The concerted, coordinated activities in the ordinary and artful ways that members doing sociology, do sociology, is the accomplishment, the achievement. And we know, we use and we take for granted this fundamental phenomenon to both do our studies, and as the studies that we do. This is how Garfinkel proposed to continue Talcott Parsons' search to understand "social order". This restates Garfinkel's opening task in his Parsons-supervised dissertation at Harvard. (Garfinkel, 1952) The brief, he had set himself, was to integrate Parsons' views of social order, the account of action/actor adopted from MaxWeber, with the consequences that an "action theory" might have for the claims for Sociology-as-science. Parsons' own problem in establishing his theory of social order had been confounded by the politics of Sociology and Harvard at the time. Pitrim Sorokin had been appointed to establish a

Research paper thumbnail of Review EssaySelf, Discourse, Cyberspace, and Postmodernity� A Marriage Made in Hell!

Research paper thumbnail of A Contrast in Approach and Outcome in Attempts to Break New Ground

Symbolic Interaction, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Goings-on in a CCU: an ethnomethodological account of things that go on in a routine hand-over

Nursing in critical care

The transcripts of two hand-overs in a critical care unit are ethnomethodologically examined. Spe... more The transcripts of two hand-overs in a critical care unit are ethnomethodologically examined. Specimens of nurses' practices in accomplishing forms of social order are identified. The hand-overs show how nurses transfer all sorts of taken-for-granted scientific, technological, medical, nursing, psychological and sociological material. Doing routine work in nursing is shown to be accomplished, with relative ease, during the hand-over when what would otherwise be viewed as dramatic features, such as 'professional authority' and 'telling about dying', are routinely managed by these nurses.

Research paper thumbnail of Andrew P. Carlin and Roger S. Slack (eds): Ethnographic Studies: Special Memorial Issue: Egon Bittner: Phenomenology in Action

Research paper thumbnail of Order! Order!—Functionalism, Interactionism, and Ethnomethodology—Modernity and Agency:Order and Agency in Modernity: Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, and Harold Garfinkel;Ethnomethodology's Program: Working Out Durkheim's Aphorism;Bad News, Good News: Conversational Order in Everyday Talk and Cl...

Symbolic Interaction, 2004

These three books provide the setting to raise and, perhaps, to lay to rest the arguments about w... more These three books provide the setting to raise and, perhaps, to lay to rest the arguments about whether symbolic interactionism is just micro-functionalism and about whether ethnomethodology is a radically different approach in sociology or just a methodological variation on the micro-functionalism that is symbolic interactionism. One purpose links each of these books. Each seeks to locate and explicate "order." Kim tries to associate symbolic interactionism (i.e., Goffman) and ethnomethodology (i.e., Garfinkel) through their parallel concerns for both together and

Research paper thumbnail of Year Simmel Rose Parsons Schutz Goffman Sacks Harvard Chicago 1858 Simmel born 1863 GHMead born Dept. of Sociology created 1894 WI Thomas arrived Chicago 1899 Schutz born

Research paper thumbnail of Playing games with postmodernism: contemporary social change, a radical change to identity? and 'belonging'

This paper presents a critique of the intellectual manoeuvring in the creation of 'postmodernity'... more This paper presents a critique of the intellectual manoeuvring in the creation of 'postmodernity' as a replacement for 'post-industrial' or 'post-capitalist' society. The creation required more than a name. A new social theory was posited to ground the discovery of this new World. This social theory required a process of social change. The social change was defined by its impact, which, in turn, constitutes that change. The sociological locus of the change is 'identity'. The location of change was the 'nation' or 'community' to which identity belongs. Identity's belonging-to constitutes that to which identity belongs. 'Nation' and 'community' are constituted in the agency of identity's belonging. These manoeuvres are glossed by posing the question as one of the degree of impact of the change. How radical was the impact of change on identity? So how radical could identity's impact be in constituting postmodernity? This raises questions about the relation of the present, the contemporary, Now, with the past, then, before. Claims were laid to the origin, ownership and affiliation of concepts. The resulting interdependence of concepts needs some clarification, some untangling. To disentangle the concept 'contemporary' from 'social change' involves defining the late twentieth century (post-1945?, post-1963? or, in England, post-1979?) as 'contemporary' relative to 'post-industrial' or in distinguishing 'modernity' from 'post-modernity'. Then further clarification defines 'social change.' And a further necessary dimension 'radical social change'. 'Identity' and 'belonging' are the defining features of the process of 'social change' which becomes 'radical' by the impact made on or the 'measure' of the impact on identity of social change.

Research paper thumbnail of GSESSAY.DOC

Georg Simmel, translation history and biography.

Research paper thumbnail of "It's Over There. Sit Down." Indexicality, The Mundane, The Ordinary and The Everyday, and Much, Much More

Human Studies

Setting out to understand "indexicality" and its significance in Ethnomethodology, it is first ne... more Setting out to understand "indexicality" and its significance in Ethnomethodology, it is first necessary to trace the history of the ideas of Harold Garfinkel. From his early commitment to find "order" in his Harvard dissertation, Garfinkel finds himself in California defending Parsons' Structural Functionalism while confronting Goffman and Symbolic Interactionism, based in Simmelian, Schützian Sociology. From the audience of students shared with Goffman, Garfinkel puts aside the "situation" of Symbolic Interaction in favour of a process, "Indexicality", abandoning theorising in favour of ethnomethodology as the means to understand "order*". This paper, then, demonstrates how indexicality works and proposes completing the tasks that Garfinkel set out in the Studies to disclose the taken-for-granted, the left out, bounded by caveats like No-Time-Out and For-all-practical purposes.

Research paper thumbnail of Garfinkel Chapter Sept 2017.doc

Questions originality of Garfinkel's ideas as parasitical on co-authors from Harvard through Cali... more Questions originality of Garfinkel's ideas as parasitical on co-authors from Harvard through California. Is Ethnomethodology actually a creation of several others compiled by Garfinkel into the Studies and other papers.

Research paper thumbnail of Simmel, Georg (1858-1918)

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Feb 15, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of One step forward and two steps back: Woolgar, reflexivity, qualitative research and a line dancing class

Research paper thumbnail of Simmel, Georg (1858-1918)

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Oct 26, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of A Contrast in Approach and Outcome in Attempts to Break New Ground

Symbolic Interaction, Oct 1, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of How to Do Sociological, Nursing and Health Care Research: Further Proof that Qualitative Research is the Road to Follow

Symbolic Interaction, Sep 26, 2016

At the core of this book is an idea, a theory, and a method of study: the illness or care traject... more At the core of this book is an idea, a theory, and a method of study: the illness or care trajectory. The idea then promotes applications as improvements in nursing practice. In Allen's hands, the core concept shifts from Strauss et al.'s (1982) "illness trajectory" to the notion of a care trajectory as a process, as a negotiated order which is "emergent" that never reaches an existential state. It does not become an object, a system, or a structure. These forms only exist in the minds of theorists, researchers, and sociologists. But Allen seems uncomfortable with this constructivist, relativist position. She resolves her discomfort with reference to Actor Network Theory (ANT). This reference to a theory reinforces basic teaching in Nurse Education and research methods that all research must follow the Popperian model and should be some kind of test of a deducted proposition from a stated theory. The nurse's own, theory-methodological position is not enough without reference and support from some higher level source. Midwives, for example, seem to be fixated on "Complexity Theory" which rests on the great profundity that the world is a complex place. ANT has a similar standing, the social world is comprised of lots of actors who interact with others in networks. Allen, as in several places in the book, would do well to abandon this last 30 years of "social theory" and return to the original sources of her work, Glaser and Strauss's (1968) illness trajectory, Egon Bittner's organization theory, Sudnow's (1967) methodological approach in "Passing On" and the collected works of Erving Goffman. Clearly the work rests directly on these sources but, like proposition testing, nurses also seem to fixate on only referencing recent sources, that is, less than 5 to 10 years old. The reasons for her discomfort rests on another problem that emerges frequently through this book although it does not necessarily distract from its overall

Research paper thumbnail of Foucault, Michel (1926–1984)

Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Categorization: Members' Practices or Sociologists' Reification? Which Way Not to Go!

Symbolic Interaction, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Book review: PER LINELL, Approaching Dialogue: Talk, Interaction and Contexts in Dialogical Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1998. 347 pp

Discourse Studies, 2002

Attention to detail is the hallmark of this work. The problem is that there is so much detail dra... more Attention to detail is the hallmark of this work. The problem is that there is so much detail drawn from such a variety of disparate approaches, that big issues are lost or dissolved in the detail. Every detail of discourse analysis, interactional linguistics and conversation ...

Research paper thumbnail of How to Do Sociological, Nursing and Health Care Research: Further Proof that Qualitative Research is the Road to Follow

Research paper thumbnail of “It’s Over There. Sit Down.” Indexicality, The Mundane, The Ordinary and The Everyday, and Much, Much More

Human Studies

Garfinkel prefaces the Studies with: … the objective reality of social facts as an ongoing accomp... more Garfinkel prefaces the Studies with: … the objective reality of social facts as an ongoing accomplishment of the concerted activities of daily life, with the ordinary, artful ways of that accomplishment being by members known, used, and taken for granted, is, for members doing sociology, a fundamental phenomenon. .. it is the prevailing topic for ethnomethodological study. p. vii. "For members doing sociology", that is, the "ongoing accomplishment of the concerted activities of daily life" is a fundamental phenomenon, is the prevailing topic for ethnomethodological study, is what sociologists should do. The concerted, coordinated activities in the ordinary and artful ways that members doing sociology, do sociology, is the accomplishment, the achievement. And we know, we use and we take for granted this fundamental phenomenon to both do our studies, and as the studies that we do. This is how Garfinkel proposed to continue Talcott Parsons' search to understand "social order". This restates Garfinkel's opening task in his Parsons-supervised dissertation at Harvard. (Garfinkel, 1952) The brief, he had set himself, was to integrate Parsons' views of social order, the account of action/actor adopted from MaxWeber, with the consequences that an "action theory" might have for the claims for Sociology-as-science. Parsons' own problem in establishing his theory of social order had been confounded by the politics of Sociology and Harvard at the time. Pitrim Sorokin had been appointed to establish a

Research paper thumbnail of Review EssaySelf, Discourse, Cyberspace, and Postmodernity� A Marriage Made in Hell!

Research paper thumbnail of A Contrast in Approach and Outcome in Attempts to Break New Ground

Symbolic Interaction, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Goings-on in a CCU: an ethnomethodological account of things that go on in a routine hand-over

Nursing in critical care

The transcripts of two hand-overs in a critical care unit are ethnomethodologically examined. Spe... more The transcripts of two hand-overs in a critical care unit are ethnomethodologically examined. Specimens of nurses' practices in accomplishing forms of social order are identified. The hand-overs show how nurses transfer all sorts of taken-for-granted scientific, technological, medical, nursing, psychological and sociological material. Doing routine work in nursing is shown to be accomplished, with relative ease, during the hand-over when what would otherwise be viewed as dramatic features, such as 'professional authority' and 'telling about dying', are routinely managed by these nurses.

Research paper thumbnail of Andrew P. Carlin and Roger S. Slack (eds): Ethnographic Studies: Special Memorial Issue: Egon Bittner: Phenomenology in Action

Research paper thumbnail of Order! Order!—Functionalism, Interactionism, and Ethnomethodology—Modernity and Agency:Order and Agency in Modernity: Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, and Harold Garfinkel;Ethnomethodology's Program: Working Out Durkheim's Aphorism;Bad News, Good News: Conversational Order in Everyday Talk and Cl...

Symbolic Interaction, 2004

These three books provide the setting to raise and, perhaps, to lay to rest the arguments about w... more These three books provide the setting to raise and, perhaps, to lay to rest the arguments about whether symbolic interactionism is just micro-functionalism and about whether ethnomethodology is a radically different approach in sociology or just a methodological variation on the micro-functionalism that is symbolic interactionism. One purpose links each of these books. Each seeks to locate and explicate "order." Kim tries to associate symbolic interactionism (i.e., Goffman) and ethnomethodology (i.e., Garfinkel) through their parallel concerns for both together and

Research paper thumbnail of Review Essay: Self, Discourse, Cyberspace, and Postmodernity— A Marriage Made in Hell!

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2003