Contents

The Pleasure of Garfinkel's Indexical Ways, by Charles Lemert

Editor's Introduction

Author's Introduction

Author's Acknowledgments as an Autobiographical Account

Part I: What Is Ethnomethodology?

1 The Central Claims of Ethnomethodology

2 EM Studies and Their Formal Analytic Alternates

3 Rendering Theorems

4 Tutorial Problems

5 Ethnomethodological Policies and Methods

Part II: Instructed Action

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6 Instructions and Instructed Actions 197

7 A Study of the Work of Teaching Undergraduate Chemistry inLecture Format 219

8 Autochthonous Order Properties of Formatted Queues 245

9 An Ethnomethodological Study of the Work of Galileo's InclinedPlane Demonstration of the Real Motion of Free Falling Bodies 263

Index

About the Author and Editor

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