Sacks, H. and Garfinkel, H. (1970) "On formal structures of practical action,"
- in J.C. McKinney and E.A. Tiryakian (eds.), Theoretical Sociology, Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, 1970, pp. 338-366. ISBN:0390623709
- Reprinted in H. Garfinkel, ed., (1986) Ethnomethodological Studies of Work, 160-193. ISBN:0415119650, ISBN:1138006831, ISBN:1351714295, ISBN:1138716596, ISBN:1351714317
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- The point of the paper
- Member's methods of sociological inquiry
- Ethnomethodology's interest in formal structures of practical actions
- The phenomenon
- Naming, identifyingm defining, describingm explaining, etc., a conversation i.e., formulating a conversation, as a feature of that coversation
- Doing accountably definite talk
- Formal structures in accountably rational discourse: the 'machinery'
- Consequences
- Appendix
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