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What Are Sense Making Practices? *
Author(s) -
HEAP James
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1976.tb00755.x
Subject(s) - ethnomethodology , family resemblance , sociology , common sense , epistemology , intelligibility (philosophy) , sense (electronics) , class (philosophy) , social psychology , psychology , social science , philosophy , electrical engineering , engineering
The formation of the concept “sense making practices” in ethnomethodology receives attention. The referents and uses of the concept suggest that “sense making practices” form a family rather than a class. Family membership is a matter of family resemblance. Thus claims about new family members run a risk of intelligibility. Finally, the search for universully invariant properties is fundamentally misguided.
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