"Die Studies sind wahrscheinlich das Beste, was Garfinkel je geschrieben hat". Michael Lynch im Gespräch mit Dominik Gerst, Hannes Krämer & René Salomon

Autor/innen

  • Michael Lynch Cornell University
  • Dominik Gerst University Duisburg-Essen
  • Hannes Krämer University Duisburg-Essen
  • René Salomon University of Würzburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3251

Schlagworte:

Ethnomethodologie, Konversationsanalyse, Geschichte der amerikanischen Soziologie, Science and Technology Studies, Epistemologie, Praxistheorie

Abstract

Michael LYNCH gilt als einer der zentralen Vertreter der Ethnomethodologie. In diesem Interview führt LYNCH die Diskussionen um Harold GARFINKELs "Studies in Ethnomethodology" (1967) zurück ins Kalifornien der 1970er Jahre und erläutert, wie er Bekanntschaft mit GARFINKEL und der Ethnomethodologie als aufstrebendem soziologischen Ansatz machte. LYNCH unterstreicht den Anspruch der Ethnomethodologie, eine spezifische Art und Weise des Forschens, Schreibens und Sprechens zu sein, die im starken Kontrast zur konventionellen Sozialwissenschaft steht und (lange Zeit) vom soziologischen Mainstream marginalisiert wird/wurde. Er reflektiert GARFINKELs zentrale intellektuelle Ressourcen – namentlich die Phänomenologie und die Philosophie WITTGENSTEINs – und veranschaulicht, wie er in seiner eigenen Arbeit die Verbindung zwischen Ethnomethodologie und Science and Technology Studies sowie zur Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie herstellt. Er zeigt, wie seine eigene Arbeit von einer Konfrontation von Sozialtheorie und Philosophie mit materialer Empirie lebt und diskutiert zugleich Konzepte wie Praxis und Wissen, die im Dazwischen dieser Konfrontation liegen. Schließlich spricht sich LYNCH für das immer wieder Lesen der "Studies in Ethnomethodology" aus, da das Buch eine beinahe unerschöpfliche Inspirationsquelle darstelle, deren Ideen insbesondere im Kontext eigener Forschungen produktiv gemacht werden könnten.

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Autor/innen-Biografien

Michael Lynch, Cornell University

Michael LYNCH, born 1948 in New York, professor emeritus at the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. After studying sociology at the State University of New York he gained a PhD from UCI for an ethnographic study of day-to-day research practices in a neuroscience laboratory in 1978-1979. After a visiting postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, he received a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA. Thereafter he taught at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. In 1987, he took up a position in sociology at Boston University, Massachusetts, and since 1993 he worked in the Department of Human Sciences at Brunel University in West London. In 1999 he took up a position in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University, New York. His research interests include ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, science and technology studies, social theory and philosophy of the social sciences.

Dominik Gerst, University Duisburg-Essen

Dominik GERST, born 1986 in Kassel, studied sociology and German philology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, Germany. From 2014-2016 he received a doctoral scholarship in the post-graduate program "Perceiving and Negotiating Borders in Talk." Until September 2018 he was research associate in the research group "Border & Boundary Studies" at the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION. Since October 2018 he is research associate at the Institute for Communication Studies at the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. In his dissertation project at the faculty of cultural and social studies at the Viadrina he is working on border knowledge in the German-Polish field of security. His research interests are border & boundary studies; ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, esp. membership categorization analysis; sociology of knowledge; qualitative methodology.

Hannes Krämer, University Duisburg-Essen

Hannes KRÄMER, born 1980 in Weimar, studied communication studies and social sciences at the universities of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Maynooth, Ireland, and Bern, Switzerland. He was research associate at the excellence cluster 16 at the University Konstanz, Germany. He received his PhD in 2013 for his work on creative work at the faculty of cultural and social studies at the European-University Viadrina. From 2014-2016 he led the research project "Temporal Boundaries of the Presence" and afterwards he led the research group "Border & Boundary Studies" and was scientific coordinator at the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION. Since 2018 he is professor of communication in institutions and organizations at the University Duisburg-Essen. His research interests are studies of work and organization; cultural sociology; practice theory and micro-sociology; border & boundary studies; sociology of time; mobility studies; ethnography.

René Salomon, University of Würzburg

René SALOMON, born 1976, member of faculty and researcher at the chair for general sociology at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg. Research interests: practice and systems theories; qualitative methodology; sociology of knowledge.

Veröffentlicht

2019-05-25

Zitationsvorschlag

Lynch, M., Gerst, D., Krämer, H., & Salomon, R. (2019). "Die Studies sind wahrscheinlich das Beste, was Garfinkel je geschrieben hat". Michael Lynch im Gespräch mit Dominik Gerst, Hannes Krämer & René Salomon. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 20(2). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3251

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