Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- PART ONE: ETHNOMETHODOLOGY AND ORDINARY ACTION -- 1 Analysing Orders of Ordinary Action -- 2 Four Relations between Literatures of the Social Scientific Movement and their Specific Ethnomethodological Alternates -- PART TWO: STUDIES OF PRACTICAL ACTION IN ORGANIZATIONAL SETTINGS -- 3 The Technical Operations of the Levers of Power -- 4 Operating Together through Videoconference: Members' Procedures for Accomplishing a Common Space of Action -- 5 Doctors' Practical Management of Knowledge in the Daily Case Conference -- 6 Auspices of Corpus Status: Bibliography* as a Phenomenon of Respecification -- PART THREE: STUDIES OF SITUATED REASONING -- 7 Law Courts as Perspicuous Sites for Ethnomethodological Investigations -- 8 Circumstances of Reasoning in the Natural Sciences -- 9 Expert System Technology in Work Practice: A Report on Service Technicians and Machine Diagnosis -- 10 Thinking as a Public Activity: The Local Order of a Tibetan Philosophical Debate -- 11 Cultures of Reading: On Professional Vision and the Lived Work of Mammography -- 12 The 'Problem of Dust': Forensic Investigation as Practical Action -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.