Method: measurement – ordinary and scientific measurement as ethnomethodological phenomena

Lynch, Mike

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“…He argued that objectivity is achieved in practice by reconciling the subjective perceptions of different individuals. This is as true in natural science as in social science (Lynch 1991) and is summarised in Schutz's term 'inter-subjectivity'.…”

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Criteria for evaluating research: the unique adequacy requirement of methods

Rooke

Kagioglou

2007

Construction Management and Economics

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The Unique Adequacy requirement of methods (UA) is proposed as a means of evaluating research in construction management. UA addresses the problems stemming from the significance of conscious action in constituting human organisation. These may be summarised as: first, that objectivity is a problematic concept in such studies; second, that the determination of meaning is their primary goal; and third, that formal procedures, whether as methods of research or explanation, have significant limitations.The UA requirement has two forms: the weak form demands that the researcher is

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Criteria for evaluating research: the unique adequacy requirement of methods

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Kagioglou

2007

Construction Management and Economics

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“…The danger in such a construction, of course, is that we easily slide into an epistemology which presupposes the isomorphism of {fundamental structure <-> mathematical structure} which have been subject of considerable work and critique in the sociology of scientific knowledge (e.g., Latour, 1993;Lynch, 1991). It also remains unclear how the mental processes and images (e.g., p. 110) attributed to agents relate to the language they use as part of their communicative efforts.…”

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Phenomenology and Mathematical Experience

Roth

2001

Linguistics and Education

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“…For insightful accounts of metrology, see Latour (1987), Schaffer (1992), andO' Connell (1993). Measurement routines also are discussed in Lynch (1991). 12.…”

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“…To this it can be added that a parallel to what Sacks says about the historical origins of science can be found in the contemporary sciences. Vernacular communication is no less prominent in the day to day work of contemporary neuroscience than in the 'primitive' sciences Sacks described (Lynch, 1985). Considered in this way, the sociality of science is not added to already complete natural science methods.…”

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Instructed actions in, of and as molecular biology

Lynch

Jordan

1995

Hum Stud

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Abstract. A recurrent theme in ethnomethodological research is that of"instructed actions". Contrary to the classic traditions in the social and cognitive sciences, which attribute logical priority or causal primacy to instructions, rules, and structures of action, ethnomethodologists investigate the situated production of actions which enable such formulations to stand as adequate accounts. Consequently, a recitation of formal structures can not count as an adequate sociological description, when no account is given of the local production of what those structures describe. The natural sciences can be described as a domain of practical action in which the use of methods enables the intersubjective reproduction of naturalistic observations and experiments. As numerous sociological studies of laboratory practices have shown, the achievement of intersubjective order cannot be reduced to formal methods; instead, it arises from the work of custom-fitting relevant methods to the local circumstances of the research. In this paper we discuss a possible extension of this idea to cover two intertwined aspects of molecular biology: (1) the work of following instructions on how to perform routine laboratory procedures, and (2) the relationship between cellular orders and the encoded 'instructions' contained in the DNA molecule. We suggest that a "classic" conception of scientific action is implied by the way formal instructions are treated as a primary basis, both for molecular biologists' actions and the cellular functions they study, and we envision an ethnomethodological alternative to those conceptions of social and biological order.For the last several years, we have investigated the production and dissemination of routine laboratory techniques in molecular biology. These include plasmid purification and isolation (commonly called "the plasmid prep") and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). I In the course of these investigations we interviewed practitioners in several scientific, medical and forensic laboratories. These practitioners described how they performed the procedures, and in a few cases taught us how to do elementary routines. We also collected numerous written and verbal accounts which described problems associated with different applications of the techniques. By focusing on these techniques, we gained a precise understanding of how the skills, protocols, instruments, and materials associated with a 'same' practical object (viz., a technique described, and sometimes patented, under an identical name or trademark) were configured under different circumstances. We pursued ques-

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Method: measurement – ordinary and scientific measurement as ethnomethodological phenomena

Cited by 74 publications

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Criteria for evaluating research: the unique adequacy requirement of methods

Criteria for evaluating research: the unique adequacy requirement of methods

Phenomenology and Mathematical Experience

Instructed actions in, of and as molecular biology

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