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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.
Georg Simmel, translation history and biography.
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.
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
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Feb 15, 2007
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Oct 26, 2015
Symbolic Interaction, Oct 1, 2014
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
Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities, 2005
Symbolic Interaction, 2016
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 ...
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
Symbolic Interaction, 2014
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.
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
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.
Georg Simmel, translation history and biography.
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.
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.
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Feb 15, 2007
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Oct 26, 2015
Symbolic Interaction, Oct 1, 2014
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
Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities, 2005
Symbolic Interaction, 2016
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 ...
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
Symbolic Interaction, 2014
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.
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
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2003