History vs. Genealogy: Why Ethnomethodology was Forgotten in the Debate on Social-Scientific Reflexivity
This paper addresses the almost complete disappearance of ethnomethodological approaches from the reflexivity debate in social-scientific theory and methodology since the 1980s. This disappearance is remarkable because many of the tropes and questions characterizing the debate around reflexivity had...
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| description | This paper addresses the almost complete disappearance of ethnomethodological approaches from the reflexivity debate in social-scientific theory and methodology since the 1980s. This disappearance is remarkable because many of the tropes and questions characterizing the debate around reflexivity had already been articulated in ethnomethodology. The main reason for this neglect, it is argued, is the productive effect it had, as it helped later debates find answers to the epistemological challenge of postmodern approaches entering sociological discourse from the direction of anthropology and science and technology studies. Those answers could never have stabilized in the presence of the fundamental ethnomethodological presupposition that reflexivity is an ontological feature of social reality. The paper ends with a number of suggestions concerning a revision of reflexivity in the social sciences, highlighting the performative aspects of social meaning, especially social-scientific meaning.
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| spelling | doaj.art-f42751c6347e4239a56b21e167f6d5f82022-12-21T21:43:15ZdeuFQSForum: Qualitative Social Research1438-56272009-07-011031244History vs. Genealogy: Why Ethnomethodology was Forgotten in the Debate on Social-Scientific ReflexivityAndreas Langenohl0Universität KonstanzThis paper addresses the almost complete disappearance of ethnomethodological approaches from the reflexivity debate in social-scientific theory and methodology since the 1980s. This disappearance is remarkable because many of the tropes and questions characterizing the debate around reflexivity had already been articulated in ethnomethodology. The main reason for this neglect, it is argued, is the productive effect it had, as it helped later debates find answers to the epistemological challenge of postmodern approaches entering sociological discourse from the direction of anthropology and science and technology studies. Those answers could never have stabilized in the presence of the fundamental ethnomethodological presupposition that reflexivity is an ontological feature of social reality. The paper ends with a number of suggestions concerning a revision of reflexivity in the social sciences, highlighting the performative aspects of social meaning, especially social-scientific meaning. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs090344http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1265reflexivityepistemologyethnomethodologypostmodernismpoststructuralismmodernism |
| spellingShingle | Andreas Langenohl History vs. Genealogy: Why Ethnomethodology was Forgotten in the Debate on Social-Scientific Reflexivity Forum: Qualitative Social Research reflexivity epistemology ethnomethodology postmodernism poststructuralism modernism |
| title | History vs. Genealogy: Why Ethnomethodology was Forgotten in the Debate on Social-Scientific Reflexivity |
| title_full | History vs. Genealogy: Why Ethnomethodology was Forgotten in the Debate on Social-Scientific Reflexivity |
| title_fullStr | History vs. Genealogy: Why Ethnomethodology was Forgotten in the Debate on Social-Scientific Reflexivity |
| title_full_unstemmed | History vs. Genealogy: Why Ethnomethodology was Forgotten in the Debate on Social-Scientific Reflexivity |
| title_short | History vs. Genealogy: Why Ethnomethodology was Forgotten in the Debate on Social-Scientific Reflexivity |
| title_sort | history vs genealogy why ethnomethodology was forgotten in the debate on social scientific reflexivity |
| topic | reflexivity epistemology ethnomethodology postmodernism poststructuralism modernism |
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