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Everyday envisionings: running pleasures and pains [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The precise ways in which we go about doing the mundane, often repetitive, actions of everyday life are central concerns of ethnographers and theorists working within the traditions of the sociology of the mundane, sociological phenomenology and ...
Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn, Hockey, John
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Maintenance & Repair in Science and Technology Studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This essay contains an overview on worldwide researches on Maintenance and Repair topics in Science and Technology ...
Denis, J\ue9r\uf4me   +2 more
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Detecting Intrusion: Electronic Security, Sensoriality, and Spatial Relations in Kingston, Jamaica

open access: yesCity &Society, Volume 37, Issue 3, December 2025.
ABSTRACT In Kingston, Jamaica, decades of high crime coupled with the failure of the state to effectively provide public security have given rise to a booming private security industry. In this landscape, middle‐ and upper‐class residents have turned to electronic security technologies to fortify their homes against the threat of a home intrusion.
Kimberley D. McKinson
wiley   +1 more source

Supporting ethnographic studies of ubiquitous computing in the wild [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Ethnography has become a staple feature of IT research over the last twenty years, shaping our understanding of the social character of computing systems and informing their design in a wide variety of settings.
Benford, S.   +5 more
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Tōjisha‐Kenkyū on Autism in Japan: Against Epistemic Injustices and Tokenism

open access: yesJournal of Social Issues, Volume 81, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT The Japanese mental health system, marked by isolation and restraint, has been challenged by Tōjisha‐Kenkyū, a peer‐led research practice initiated in 2001 by Urakawa Bethel House members. Drawing from disability rights and addiction self‐help movements, it addresses hermeneutical injustice by creating shared language for minority experiences.
Satsuki Ayaya
wiley   +1 more source

Review Symposium: Interactionism Meets Historical Analysis: An Author-Critic Dialogue on "Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times"

open access: yesForum: Qualitative Social Research
In this article, an author-meets-critics session is recorded for the book "Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times," authored by Gordon C. CHANG.
Gordon Chang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Discourse analysis and ethnomethodological discourse analysis

open access: yesMatrizes, 2014
This paper aims to present and discuss a range of theoretical perspectives towards discursive phenomena, in particular the different research techniques broadly known as ‘discourse analysis’, as well as the ethnomethodological approach to discourse ...
Adriano Duarte Rodrigues   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Opening up closings - the Ecuadorian way [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
In the conversation analytic tradition, this paper examines the procedures Ecuadorian Spanish (ES) speakers employ to close telephone conversations. Conversation analysts (cf.
Eades, MARIA ELENA PLACENCIA
core   +1 more source

Navigating Omnirelevant Asymmetry: Encouraging Children to Exercise Their Deontic Rights in Videoconferencing Music Lessons

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 576-601, November 2025.
The educational community has long critiqued teacher‐centered instruction, promoting student‐centered learning. Yet, pre‐assumed teacher‐student category relevance may overlook momentary asymmetries and alternative categories in real‐time learning. Drawing on video recordings of videoconferencing music lessons involving a teacher/great aunt, young ...
Yumei Gan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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