This silly story tries to encabulate a central point of ethnomethodology, which is that reasonable judgements of what COUNTS AS what pervasively underlie and shape everyday activity; and we do that by giving ACCOUNTS of what things count as and why…
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Formal rationality, whether science or financial accounting, has important differences from everyday reasonableness, but cannot operate without it. There are always borderline cases that formal rules cannot specify and that must not be decided arbitrarily either.pic.twitter.com/m2SYArg2Y3
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Harold Garfinkel, the founder of ethnomethodology, studied financial accounting during the Depression as the “learn to code!” of the day. Accounting analogies are pervasive in his work. Pragmatic mundane realism marks his later studies of scientists at work too.pic.twitter.com/MxqNLAPqmj
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Lucy Suchman, from whom I learned most of what little I know of ethnomethodology, did a thesis on Xerox’s business travel reimbursement practices. That was the inspiration for the story I posted at the beginning of this thread. [I can’t find this thesis online, unfortunately!]pic.twitter.com/1CbhobYtJ1
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Understanding this interface between “mere reasonableness” and formal rationality is a prerequisite for meta-rationality. Reworking the details of that interface is a central meta-rational concern. For example…
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In experimental science, you never have “data” in the rationalist sense. You got some numbers from some unenumerably complex semi-characterized process. Which ones COUNT, and which are garbage? That meta-rational question is THE WHOLE JOB OF SCIENCE:https://twitter.com/hardsci/status/1069755156336599040 …
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david wow this is legitimately really hot is it just me
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It's a very long dull book so I try to break the monotony
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Business expense with benefits
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It's all business expenses, but if you get pregnant, the company owns the baby.
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