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By Michael Lynch
Philosophers, historians, and sociologists of technological know-how have grown more and more attracted to the day-by-day practices of scientists. contemporary reviews have drawn linkages among clinical thoughts and extra usual approaches, craft talents, and resources of sponsorship. those reports dispute the concept that technology is the applying of a unified strategy or the outgrowth of a revolutionary heritage of rules. The imperative objective of this booklet is to discover the potential of an empirical method of the epistemic contents of technological know-how that avoids the pitfalls of scientism and foundationalism.
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Jurors referred to the evidence, and they ruminated about the import of that evidence for the case at hand. They speculated about how the society outside the courtroom could have produced the events under dispute. What they determined was reflexive to their ways of determining it, and their descriptions and evidential arguments were reflexively embedded in their deliberations. Moreover, the jurors themselves treated the reports and testimonies presented by the litigants as variously plausible descriptions that expressed or reflected the litigants' purposes, aims, motives, entitlements, obligations, and social statuses.
36 What exactly might be meant by "oriented" or "orientation" is easily misunderstood and subject to different technical specifications. I discuss the matter further in Chapter 6, but meanwhile it should be sufficient to say that "orientation" does not imply a psychological disposition or intention but a gestural or verbal display described using the second- or thirdperson grammatical case. Ethnomethodology 5. 6. 15 ment of those activities. 37 This orientedly ordinary observable orderliness is rational.
15 ment of those activities. 37 This orientedly ordinary observable orderliness is rational. Orderly social activities make sense to those who know how to produce and appreciate them. 38 This rationally oriented ordinary observable orderliness is describable. Masters of the relevant natural language can talk about the order of their activities, and they can talk in and as the order of their activities. 39 "Accountable" social activities are produced in connection with the possibility of their description in a natural language.