Robert Craig
Ethnomethodology’s Program and practical inquiry
In this review essay, I argue that Garfinkel's dichotomy between formal analysis (FA) and ethnomethodology (EM) does not exhaust the possibilities of social inquiry. After some explication and critique of FA and EM, I sketch a rationale for a dialectical way of combining them that does not forget their incommensurability but uses it for practical purposes. More generally, my research interests range across the fields of communication theory and discourse analysis. Current projects include theoretical work on communication as a practical discipline, and discourse-analytic studies of metadiscursive practices in interaction.
Robert T. Craig is professor and department chair of Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder and president of the International Communication Association for 2003-2004.For further information: http://spot.colorado.edu/~craigr/
