The domain of urban ambiances has developed apace over the past twenty years. It was
introduced in order to describe and design the sensory fabric of the urban world more …

As our contribution to this special issue, we examine how understandings of objects are
talked and worked into being within concerted action. We will argue that formal procedure …

This Handbook stands as the premier scholarly resource for Language and Social
Interaction (LSI) subject matter and research, giving visibility and definition to this area of …

This volume includes an unpublished manuscript and selected portions of five seminars by
Harold Garfinkel–the founder of ethnomethodology–on the topic of practices in the natural …

Despite a growing body of work across the social and cognitive sciences concerned with the
relations between inanimate objects and sociality, we still have relatively little understanding …

Currently, visual sociology is defined as a sub‐field of qualitative sociology. This paper
argues that such a view is too narrow and that the field is actually composed of three distinct …

This chapter considers methodological and theoretical contexts for the employment of still
photographs and moving film in ethnographic reports. It sketches these uses in light of the …

The first colonisation of the Greater Australian region, Sahul, is the oldest evidence for the
expression of behaviour that is distinctively human. This colonisation is central to an …

This book revisits the arguments by which Harvey Sacks and Harold Garfinkel opposed the
widespread attempt in the social sciences to construct disciplinary theories and methods in …

Guide dogs are sense-able agents that can assist Visually Impaired Persons (VIP) to
achieve mobility. But could a guide dog be replaced by a robot dog? Based on video …