Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4)
Ethnomethodological Inspirations

Introduction to the Thematic Issue on Ethnomethodological Inspirations

Jiří Nekvapil

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4): 497-504  

Presentation Strategies of Majority and Minority Opinions in Online Discussions on Agricultural Subsidies

Jana Lindbloom

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4): 505-536 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2010.46.4.02  

Drawing on discourse analysis and ethnomethodology, this study presents an analysis of online political discussions on the contentious issue of agricultural subsidies as a case of 'talk-in-(inter)action'. A corpus retrieved from an internet forum biased towards right-wing framings of political issues furnished this study with a means to focus on an 'inter-discursive' contestation taking place within a debate setting characterised by an asymmetric representation of opposing viewpoints. Entries criticising and entries defending agricultural subsidies and/or farmers were juxtaposed and analysed as culturally adroit performances of the social role of a...

Making Television News: Work Practices in the System of Genre Norms

Petr Kaderka, Martin Havlík

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4): 537-568 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2010.46.4.03  

In this article, the authors examine the production of television news by a public service broadcaster, Czech Television. The aim is to understand the way in which reporters and their colleagues 'make the news'. Ethnomethodologically informed ethnography is used to analyse cooperation among TV professionals and make visible the everyday, routine, and situated practices with which they perform their tasks. The authors study how practitioners perform their work in consideration of their colleagues' work, that is, with an awareness of a common aim. They argue that the professional system of relevances of newsmakers is structured by socially established...

Guide Dog Training in an Organisation

Ivana Hejhalová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4): 569-592 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2010.46.4.04  

This article contributes to the ethnomethodological investigation of the human-animal relationship, focusing on practically oriented and situated members' methods, categorisations, and forms of interactions. The analysis shows how members reconstruct the rules of the training of guide dogs at a particular guide dog training centre (SVVP), and, while acting, how they orient themselves towards the principles of the broader framework, namely, the 'institution of the guide dog'. The participation of the dogs in these interactions is also considered. The use of the rules and the principles is interpreted through the concepts of positioning (Harré, Davies),...

A Heuristic Strategy for the Study of Human Affairs

Jiří Kabele

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4): 593-618 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2010.46.4.05  

Heuristic methodology attempts to outline the justifications, philosophical assumptions, and rules for the scholarly study of human affairs in order to prevent such study from violating the rights of others and enable it to produce valuable knowledge. To solve this problem, the author draws theoretical support from his game-coordination solution to the agency/structure dilemma and takes inspiration from Garfinkel's concept of 'doing sociology' and from the 'epistemology' of the independent justice-seeking court, which for centuries has developed procedural principles and rules that balance the protection of human rights with effective investigation....

9/11 Revisited: 'Doing history' in political discourse

Jiří Nekvapil, Ivan Leudar

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4): 619-642 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2010.46.4.06  

Drawing on ethnomethodology, this article addresses what participants do as 'practical historians' - how they use and produce history in and through their activities. Specifi cally, it studies how historical contingencies are built into antagonistic political talk and to what effect. To that end, the authors revisit three of their own papers, all of which analysed how the 9/11 attacks in the United States were represented. The authors reanalyse the texts focusing on how the protagonists in the confl ict (Bush, Blair and bin Laden) 'did history'. The analysis reveals two related methods of 'practicing history': one is to situate contemporary events...

Stephen Hester, David Francis (eds.): Orders of Ordinary Action: Respecifying Sociological Knowledge

Jiří Nekvapil

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4): 643-644  

Rod Watson: Analysing Practical and Professional Texts. A Naturalistic Approach

Iva Měrková Pecáková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4): 645-648  

Eric Livingston: Ethnographies of Reason

Petr Kaderka

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4): 649-651  

Ivan Leudar, Alan Costall (eds.): Against Theory of Mind

Jaroslav Peregrin

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4): 652-655  

Michael Lynch, Simon A. Cole, Ruth McNally, Kathleen Jordan: Truth Machine. The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

Martin Hájek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4): 656-658  

Phil Hutchinson, Rupert Read, Wes Sharrock: There is No Such Thing as a Social Science: In Defence of Peter Winch

Martin Paleček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4): 659-661  

Emanuel A. Schegloff: Sequence Organization in Interaction. Volume 1. A Primer in Conversation Analysis

Martin Havlík

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4): 662-665  

Anssi Peräkylä, Charles Antaki, Sanna Vehviläinen, Ivan Leudar (eds.): Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy

Lydie Fialová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4): 666-669  

Cecilia E. Ford: Women Speaking Up. Getting and Using Turns in Workplace Meetings

Martin Havlík

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4): 670-673  

Richard Fitzgerald, William Housley (eds.): Media, Policy and Interaction

Jan Křeček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4): 674-676  

Jadwiga Šanderová, Olga Šmídová et al.: Sociální konstrukce nerovností pod kvalitativní lupou

Klára Vomastková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(4): 677