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New Article: “Simmel and Ethnomethodology: Foundational Sociological Issues from a Nondualist Perspective” by Chiara Bassetti, Erik Boström, Kenneth Liberman, Jakub Mlynář, Robin James Smith & Dirk vom Lehn https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-026-09693-7
Together with a team of sociologists – Chiara Bassetti, Erik Boström, Kenneth Liberman, Jakub Mlynář, Robin James Smith, I read Georg Simmel’s “Sociology. Inquiries into the Construction of Social Forms” (“Soziologie. Untersuchungen über die Formen der Vergesellschaftung“) to explore how Simmel’s sociology can/could have informed ethnomethodological inquiries. The result of this collaborative reading project has just been published in…
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New edited collection with Will Gibson and Natalia Ruiz-Junco “Sensing Life: The Social Organisation of the Senses in Interaction” #ethnomethodology #sssi #symbolicinteraction #sociology #senses #perception
Together with Will Gibson (UCL) and Natalia Ruiz-Junco (Auburn University) I have published a new edited collection titled “Sensing Life: The Social Organisation of the Senses in Interaction“. Table of contents 1 Will Gibson, Dirk vom Lehn, and Natalia Ruiz-Junco: Introduction Part 1 – Studying the Senses 2 Will Gibson, Natalia Ruiz-Junco and Dirk vom…
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Paper on Analysing “the Sequential Organization of Social Interaction in Exhibitions” #emca #video #sociology #museum
Luise Reitstätter and Carla-Marinka Schorr have published an excellent edited collection titled “Methods of Exhibition Analysis” (open access, in English and German) that showcases a wide range of research methods used to investigate visitors’ experience of exhibits and exhibitions. All the chapters are structured in very similar ways, making it easy for readers, academics and…
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Call for Applications: Collaborative PhD Studentship: (King’s Business School/College of Optometrists) (start date: October 2026)
Blurred Jurisdictions: investigating the professional boundaries in Eye-Care in the UK King’s Business School (King’s College London), Public Services Management & Organisation & College of Optometrists Collaborative PhD Studentship GO TO THE ADVERTISEMENT HERE King’s College London, in partnership with the College of Optometrists, is offering a PhD studentship to examine how optometrists cooperate with…
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New Paper: “Social interaction and dark tourism in prison museums” by Rachael Ironside, Brianna Wyatt, Craig Wight, Alona Roitershtein, Dirk vom Lehn
This study explores how prison tourism experiences are co-constructed through situated visitor interactions. Penal heritage sites are decommissioned prisons, transformed into immersive educational attractions, drawing upon multiple interpretative practices to engage visitors with historic and contemporary issues of crime and punishment. Using ethnomethodological conversation analysis (EMCA), this research examines how gestures, talk, gaze and bodily…
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Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction #emca #sociology
The Work Interaction and Technology Group is holding an Advanced Summer Institute providing practical guidance for researchers interested in the use of video to analyse social interaction in any domain (incl. health, technology, public places, organisations, etc.). It is designed for doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career faculty. For more information, click HERE
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PhD Studentship: “Urban Agora and the Search for Authenticity – London’s Street Markets as Alternative Retail Experiences” #KingsBusinessSchool #Marketing #Sociology #Studentship #PhD
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/urban-agora-and-the-search-for-authenticity-london-s-street-markets-as-alternative-retail-experiences/?p182137 About the Project This PhD project aims to explore how market participants produce “authenticity” and use it to generate value (Zukin, 2011). Specifically, it investigates how marketing practices undertaken by market operators and traders in a street market facilitate the emergence of “authentic spaces”, the generation of value, and wider economic and social benefits for the…
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“People, Technology and Social Organization. Interactionist Studies of Everyday Life” edited by Dirk vom Lehn, Will Gibson and Natalia Ruiz-Junco (Routledge, 2023) – Table of Contents #emca #interactionism #sssi #sociology
Google Books Amazon (UK) Amazon (US) Routledge (UK) Routledge (US) People, Technology and Social Organization Interactionist Studies of Everyday Life edited by Dirk vom Lehn, Will Gibson and Natalia Ruiz-Junco Table of Contents 1 Introduction by Dirk Vom Lehn, Will Gibson, and Natalia Ruiz-Junco Abstract The introduction explains the motivation for this book that is…
