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Routledge eBooks, May 11, 2022
Policing & Society, May 10, 2018
Sociology, Nov 1, 1999
It may be worth considering separately the value of the project of this book and its actual achie... more It may be worth considering separately the value of the project of this book and its actual achievement. Abercrombie and Longhurst aim to outline a new, socio-logical theory of audiences. That is to say, they propose that the act of 'being an audience' has to be ...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2013
'membership', which were explored by Bittner in his Ph.D. (1961; see Garfinkel 1967: 57, n. 8) an... more 'membership', which were explored by Bittner in his Ph.D. (1961; see Garfinkel 1967: 57, n. 8) and became key concepts of the Garfinkel and Sacks (1970) paper, provide leitmotivs for this special issue: competent membership as an ordinary person in society, with the attendant natural, common sense categorial incumbencies that are part of being an ordinary person in society; competent membership as a sociologist-both as a member of society and as a member of a community of sociologists; and competent membership as expressed in professional incumbencies, e.g., police work, psychiatry, organisational employee, manager, etc. These predicates found expression in his use of the term workmanship: workmanship encompasses the issues of profession and professionalism, authority and authorisation (that someone is recognised to have the bona fides for a particular decision or task), and competence as an unstated aspect of organisational work. As Bittner stated, workmanship 'involves the maintenance of minimally acceptable levels of knowledgeable, skilled, and judicious performance. The criterion of workmanship, in the sense intended here, always allows-indeed, calls for-reference to standards of excellence that cannot be fully formulated in advance of the occasions of use' (Bittner 1983: 2-3). We may discern an elaborative relation between Bittner's work on organisations and his organisation-specific studies on police 'forces', then. The ethnomethodological explication of (what Garfinkel called) the 'routine grounds' of organisational work, summarised and praxiologised in 'The Concept of Organization', highlighted how members are conferred with particular areas of authority, responsibility, knowledge, expertise, and decision-making powers. In Larimer Tours, we see Bittner's observation of competence-inaction. His accounting of police officers' ongoing activities on skid row, and dealing with the men on skid row, is attuned to the display of interpersonal skills that are not to be found in police manuals (Bittner 1967a; 1967b). Bittner glosses these skills as workmanship, which 'consists of the ability to call upon resources of knowledge, skill, and judgement to meet and master the unexpected within one's sphere of competence' (Bittner 1983: 3). 'Area knowledge' was a summary statement of his ethnographic observations with police officers and organisational incumbents. It encloses the attribution of 'normal appearances' (Cicourel 1968; Sacks 1972) and derives, largely, from his participation in the 'Larimer Street' inquiries at the invitation of Edward Rose. This section of our Introduction describes the Larimer Street project, its contribution and significance to ethnomethodological and urban inquiries, as background to Bittner's Larimer Tours report. It is concerned with highlighting the epistemological and methodological contours of what would become 'ethnomethodological ethnography', developed as ethnographic 4 method by Edward Rose, a professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder, and complemented by the ethnographic report by Bittner. Rose led a team of researchers 5 on an ethnographic study of a discrete neighbourhood in Denver. Rose was asked to produce a report of the skid row district (Larimer Street) by the Denver Urban Renewal Authority. The particular interest of the Denver Urban Renewal Authority was the impact of relocating the skid row district elsewhere in Denver, to allow for the redevelopment of the Larimer Street area. The final report, titled The Unattached Society, an analysis and gloss on the achievements and practices of people who dealt with skid row, was
The Geojournal library, Aug 3, 2013
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, Sep 17, 2008
Facet Publishing eBooks, 2015
The Canadian journal of information and library science, 2015
cies are generated and recognizes that “this also raises a question about who information policy ... more cies are generated and recognizes that “this also raises a question about who information policy is for” (p. 11). Policy has a variety of needs, and Cornelius recognizes and describes many of those needs through his treatment of the various kinds and purposes of policy. In fact, each chapter and section of the book flows into the next, so that there is a relatively seamless treatment of policy needs that relates one to the next. For example, his discourse on the public sphere is necessary for the discussion of censorship and other topics. What constitutes a public sphere contributes to (if it does not determine) what constitutes freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Those freedoms rely on rights—individual and government—that precede freedoms. In the real world, Cornelius says, “we must consider what actually happens as well as what we intend” (p. 88). If information is seen as a marketplace, then it must be accepted that governments do much to regulate markets for information, just as they regulate all types of markets. Cornelius does, though, present thoroughly considered arguments for free speech, particularly those articulated by Joshua Cohen. Cornelius’s book is no polemic, which is refreshing in itself. It is intended to be, and succeeds as, a careful beginning, well argued and presented, for those who would delve more deeply into information policy. This work would be a splendid introduction to anyone who yearns to know more about the fundamental nature and principles of information policy. Perhaps especially, this work would make an excellent textbook for any course on the subject.
Library and Information Research, Sep 10, 2011
Library & Information Science Research, Dec 1, 2008
Routledge eBooks, Dec 30, 2020
Collection Building, Apr 18, 2008
PRism, Jul 19, 2020
This paper reflects on a teaching problem highlighted as part of a second-year undergraduate modu... more This paper reflects on a teaching problem highlighted as part of a second-year undergraduate module in sociology, taught at a UK based institution of higher education. The specific teaching problem-that of student learning as encountered and revealed in seminars-was nested within other issues; some of which related to the characteristics of the discipline of sociology itself, whilst others, related to more localised issues such as the choice of materials available for students to access and download. Whilst the lecture and course material was fixed, the flexibility of the seminar framework enabled the exploration and implementation of an ad hoc intervention in the form of 'de-classrooming'. This intervention was utilised and developed to enhance the knowledge base and conceptual understanding of the student cohort in relation to "Everyday Life" sociology. The 'declassrooming' intervention proved to be an efficacious pedagogic device, which facilitated dynamic levels of flexibility and creativity by both teacher and learners. As a pedagogic device, it manifested a number of key benefits: such as aiding the clarification of conceptual confusions. Ultimately, the de-classrooming intervention operated to establish an empowered sense of ownership where knowledge and knowledge-generation were concerned, and afforded students unorthodox opportunities for learning enhancement.
Collection Building, Jan 18, 2008
Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks, Oct 14, 2011
Page 1. REVIEW OF THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION RESEARCH: PEOPLE, PLACES,... more Page 1. REVIEW OF THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION RESEARCH: PEOPLE, PLACES, IDEAS BY WENDY LEEDS-HURWITZ $ Andrew P. Carlin Keywords: Ethnography of communication ...
This thesis explores sociologists' routine research activities, including observation, participan... more This thesis explores sociologists' routine research activities, including observation, participant observation, interviewing, and transcription. It suggests that the constitutive activities of sociological research methods-writing field-notes, doing looking and categorising, and the endogenous structure of members' ordinary language transactions are suffused with culturally methodic, i.e. ordinary language activities. "Membership categories" are the ordinary organising practices of description that society-members-including sociologists-routinely use in assembling sense of settings. This thesis addresses the procedural bases of activities which are constituent features of the research: disguising identities of informants, reviewing literature, writing-up research outcomes, and compiling bibliographies. These activities are themselves loci of practical reasoning. Whilst these activities are assemblages of members' cultural methods, they have not been recognised as "research practices" by methodologically ironic sociology.
The Sociological Review, Nov 1, 2016
Discourse Studies, Feb 1, 2002
Membership categories are organized descriptions and identifications of individuals, relationship... more Membership categories are organized descriptions and identifications of individuals, relationships and collectivities people routinely use in making sense of everyday life. They are constituent features of ordinary language practicesie cultureand the title Culture in ...
Routledge eBooks, May 11, 2022
Policing & Society, May 10, 2018
Sociology, Nov 1, 1999
It may be worth considering separately the value of the project of this book and its actual achie... more It may be worth considering separately the value of the project of this book and its actual achievement. Abercrombie and Longhurst aim to outline a new, socio-logical theory of audiences. That is to say, they propose that the act of 'being an audience' has to be ...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2013
'membership', which were explored by Bittner in his Ph.D. (1961; see Garfinkel 1967: 57, n. 8) an... more 'membership', which were explored by Bittner in his Ph.D. (1961; see Garfinkel 1967: 57, n. 8) and became key concepts of the Garfinkel and Sacks (1970) paper, provide leitmotivs for this special issue: competent membership as an ordinary person in society, with the attendant natural, common sense categorial incumbencies that are part of being an ordinary person in society; competent membership as a sociologist-both as a member of society and as a member of a community of sociologists; and competent membership as expressed in professional incumbencies, e.g., police work, psychiatry, organisational employee, manager, etc. These predicates found expression in his use of the term workmanship: workmanship encompasses the issues of profession and professionalism, authority and authorisation (that someone is recognised to have the bona fides for a particular decision or task), and competence as an unstated aspect of organisational work. As Bittner stated, workmanship 'involves the maintenance of minimally acceptable levels of knowledgeable, skilled, and judicious performance. The criterion of workmanship, in the sense intended here, always allows-indeed, calls for-reference to standards of excellence that cannot be fully formulated in advance of the occasions of use' (Bittner 1983: 2-3). We may discern an elaborative relation between Bittner's work on organisations and his organisation-specific studies on police 'forces', then. The ethnomethodological explication of (what Garfinkel called) the 'routine grounds' of organisational work, summarised and praxiologised in 'The Concept of Organization', highlighted how members are conferred with particular areas of authority, responsibility, knowledge, expertise, and decision-making powers. In Larimer Tours, we see Bittner's observation of competence-inaction. His accounting of police officers' ongoing activities on skid row, and dealing with the men on skid row, is attuned to the display of interpersonal skills that are not to be found in police manuals (Bittner 1967a; 1967b). Bittner glosses these skills as workmanship, which 'consists of the ability to call upon resources of knowledge, skill, and judgement to meet and master the unexpected within one's sphere of competence' (Bittner 1983: 3). 'Area knowledge' was a summary statement of his ethnographic observations with police officers and organisational incumbents. It encloses the attribution of 'normal appearances' (Cicourel 1968; Sacks 1972) and derives, largely, from his participation in the 'Larimer Street' inquiries at the invitation of Edward Rose. This section of our Introduction describes the Larimer Street project, its contribution and significance to ethnomethodological and urban inquiries, as background to Bittner's Larimer Tours report. It is concerned with highlighting the epistemological and methodological contours of what would become 'ethnomethodological ethnography', developed as ethnographic 4 method by Edward Rose, a professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder, and complemented by the ethnographic report by Bittner. Rose led a team of researchers 5 on an ethnographic study of a discrete neighbourhood in Denver. Rose was asked to produce a report of the skid row district (Larimer Street) by the Denver Urban Renewal Authority. The particular interest of the Denver Urban Renewal Authority was the impact of relocating the skid row district elsewhere in Denver, to allow for the redevelopment of the Larimer Street area. The final report, titled The Unattached Society, an analysis and gloss on the achievements and practices of people who dealt with skid row, was
The Geojournal library, Aug 3, 2013
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, Sep 17, 2008
Facet Publishing eBooks, 2015
The Canadian journal of information and library science, 2015
cies are generated and recognizes that “this also raises a question about who information policy ... more cies are generated and recognizes that “this also raises a question about who information policy is for” (p. 11). Policy has a variety of needs, and Cornelius recognizes and describes many of those needs through his treatment of the various kinds and purposes of policy. In fact, each chapter and section of the book flows into the next, so that there is a relatively seamless treatment of policy needs that relates one to the next. For example, his discourse on the public sphere is necessary for the discussion of censorship and other topics. What constitutes a public sphere contributes to (if it does not determine) what constitutes freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Those freedoms rely on rights—individual and government—that precede freedoms. In the real world, Cornelius says, “we must consider what actually happens as well as what we intend” (p. 88). If information is seen as a marketplace, then it must be accepted that governments do much to regulate markets for information, just as they regulate all types of markets. Cornelius does, though, present thoroughly considered arguments for free speech, particularly those articulated by Joshua Cohen. Cornelius’s book is no polemic, which is refreshing in itself. It is intended to be, and succeeds as, a careful beginning, well argued and presented, for those who would delve more deeply into information policy. This work would be a splendid introduction to anyone who yearns to know more about the fundamental nature and principles of information policy. Perhaps especially, this work would make an excellent textbook for any course on the subject.
Library and Information Research, Sep 10, 2011
Library & Information Science Research, Dec 1, 2008
Routledge eBooks, Dec 30, 2020
Collection Building, Apr 18, 2008
PRism, Jul 19, 2020
This paper reflects on a teaching problem highlighted as part of a second-year undergraduate modu... more This paper reflects on a teaching problem highlighted as part of a second-year undergraduate module in sociology, taught at a UK based institution of higher education. The specific teaching problem-that of student learning as encountered and revealed in seminars-was nested within other issues; some of which related to the characteristics of the discipline of sociology itself, whilst others, related to more localised issues such as the choice of materials available for students to access and download. Whilst the lecture and course material was fixed, the flexibility of the seminar framework enabled the exploration and implementation of an ad hoc intervention in the form of 'de-classrooming'. This intervention was utilised and developed to enhance the knowledge base and conceptual understanding of the student cohort in relation to "Everyday Life" sociology. The 'declassrooming' intervention proved to be an efficacious pedagogic device, which facilitated dynamic levels of flexibility and creativity by both teacher and learners. As a pedagogic device, it manifested a number of key benefits: such as aiding the clarification of conceptual confusions. Ultimately, the de-classrooming intervention operated to establish an empowered sense of ownership where knowledge and knowledge-generation were concerned, and afforded students unorthodox opportunities for learning enhancement.
Collection Building, Jan 18, 2008
Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks, Oct 14, 2011
Page 1. REVIEW OF THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION RESEARCH: PEOPLE, PLACES,... more Page 1. REVIEW OF THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION RESEARCH: PEOPLE, PLACES, IDEAS BY WENDY LEEDS-HURWITZ $ Andrew P. Carlin Keywords: Ethnography of communication ...
This thesis explores sociologists' routine research activities, including observation, participan... more This thesis explores sociologists' routine research activities, including observation, participant observation, interviewing, and transcription. It suggests that the constitutive activities of sociological research methods-writing field-notes, doing looking and categorising, and the endogenous structure of members' ordinary language transactions are suffused with culturally methodic, i.e. ordinary language activities. "Membership categories" are the ordinary organising practices of description that society-members-including sociologists-routinely use in assembling sense of settings. This thesis addresses the procedural bases of activities which are constituent features of the research: disguising identities of informants, reviewing literature, writing-up research outcomes, and compiling bibliographies. These activities are themselves loci of practical reasoning. Whilst these activities are assemblages of members' cultural methods, they have not been recognised as "research practices" by methodologically ironic sociology.
The Sociological Review, Nov 1, 2016
Discourse Studies, Feb 1, 2002
Membership categories are organized descriptions and identifications of individuals, relationship... more Membership categories are organized descriptions and identifications of individuals, relationships and collectivities people routinely use in making sense of everyday life. They are constituent features of ordinary language practicesie cultureand the title Culture in ...
Policing and Society An International Journal of Research and Policy , 2018
A sociology of crime, second edition, by Stephen Hester and Peter Eglin, Abingdon, New York, Rout... more A sociology of crime, second edition, by Stephen Hester and Peter Eglin, Abingdon, New York, Routledge, 2017
Contemporary Sociology, 2017
The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and Social Sciences, by Michael E. Brown
The Sociological Review, 2016
Gail Jefferson, Talking About Troubles in Conversation, Edited by Paul Drew, John Heritage, Gene ... more Gail Jefferson, Talking About Troubles in Conversation,
Edited by Paul Drew, John Heritage, Gene Lerner, and
Anita Pomerantz.
Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015
Sociological Research Online, 2016
Introducing Research Methodology 2nd Edition Uwe Flick London: SAGE 2015
Library & Information History, 2016
The Archive Thief: The Man who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust. By LI... more The Archive Thief: The Man who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust. By LISA MOSES LEFF. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2015
Canadian Journal of Information & Library Science, 2015
Michael F. Bemis. Library and Information Science: A Guide to Key Literature and Sources. Chicago... more Michael F. Bemis. Library and Information Science: A Guide to Key Literature and Sources. Chicago: American Library Association, 2014.
JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 2014
Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Fidelia Ibekw... more Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan and Thomas M. Dousa (Eds.). London, UK: Springer, 2014.
Managing Information, 2013
University Libraries and Space in the Digital World Graham Matthews and Graham Walton (Eds) Farnh... more University Libraries and Space in the Digital World
Graham Matthews and Graham Walton (Eds)
Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013.
An Leabharlann/The Irish Library, 2012
Know It All Find It Fast for Academic Libraries Heather Dawson. London: Facet Publishing, 2012
Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 2011
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, ed, The Social History of Language and Social Interaction Research: People... more Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, ed,
The Social History of Language and Social Interaction Research:
People, Places, Ideas.
Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press, Inc., 2010
Library & Information Research, 2011
Volume 35 Number 110 2011 _______________________________________________________________________... more Volume 35 Number 110 2011 _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ A. Carlin 83 HERRING, James E. Improving students' web use and information literacy: A guide for teachers and teacher librarians. London: Facet Publishing. 2011. 143 pages. ISBN-13 978 1 85604 743 2. £39.95.
Journal of Information Literacy, 2011
Carlin, A. 2011. Book Review of Ruthven, I. and Kelly, D. (eds.) 2011. Interactive information se... more Carlin, A. 2011. Book Review of Ruthven, I. and Kelly, D. (eds.) 2011. Interactive information seeking, behaviour and retrieval. London: Facet. Journal of information literacy, 5(2), pp. 99-100.
An Leabharlann/The Irish Library, 2009
Wendy Griswold, Regionalism and the Reading Class. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008
Collection Building, 2008
RoseMary Honnold. The Teen-Reader's' Advisor New York, NY: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2006
Collection Building, 2008
The New OPL Sourcebook. A Guide for Solo and Small Libraries. Judith A. Siess. Medford, New Jerse... more The New OPL Sourcebook. A Guide for Solo and Small Libraries. Judith A.
Siess. Medford, New Jersey: Information Today, Inc, 2006
Library & Information Science Research, 2008
Ethnographic Studies, 2013