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Contents

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

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Editor's Introduction
Author's Introduction

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Author's Acknowledgments as an Autobiographical Account

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Part I: What Is Ethnomethodology?

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The Central Claims of Ethnomethodology

EM Studies and Their Formal Analytic Alternates

121

Rendering Theorems

135

Tutorial Problems

145

Ethnomethodological Policies and Methods

169

Part II: Instructed Action


6

Instructions and Instructed Actions

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A Study of the Work of Teaching Undergraduate Chemistry in


Lecture Format

219

Autochthonous Order Properties of Formatted Queues

245

An Ethnomethodological Study of the Work of Galileo's Inclined


Plane Demonstration of the Real Motion of Free Falling Bodies

263

Index

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About the Author and Editor

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