{"product_id":"instructed-and-instructive-actions-michael-lynch-9781032245522","title":"Instructed and Instructive Actions: The Situated Production, Reproduction, and Subversion of Social Order","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe contributors to this volume take up the theme of instructed and instructive actions. Harold Garfinkel, the founder of ethnomethodology, initiated the study of instructed actions as a way to elucidate the embodied production of social order in real time. Studies of instructions and the actions of following them provide empirical content to the classical theoretical issue of how rules, norms, and other normative guidelines are conveyed, understood, and used for producing social actions and structures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe studies in this volume address novel technologies of instructed action and non-obvious ways in which ordinary actions turn out to be instructive for participants in immediate situations of action and interaction. In some cases, the studies address specialized practical, artistic, and recreational activities, and in others they address commonplace modes of action and interaction. In all cases, they focus on how the manifest organization of specific activities is organized with and without explicitly formulated instructions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in ethnomethodological approaches to research by contributing to understandings of how specific actions are instructed and instructive in the circumstances in which they are produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http: \/\/www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Lynch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032245522\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032245522\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.67d","brand":"Michael Lynch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48087501046015,"sku":"9781032245522","price":56.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1dbfbaf0-d30c-4853-9361-a10da2f4bda4.jpg?v=1769100421","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/instructed-and-instructive-actions-michael-lynch-9781032245522","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}