This book brings together contributions from researchers within various social science disciplines who seek to redefine the methods and topics that constitute the study of work. They investigate work activity in ways that do not reduce it to a "psychology" of individual cognition or to a "sociology" of societal structures and communication. A key theme in the material is the relationship between theory and practice. Mindful practices and communicative interaction are examined as situated issues at work in the reproduction of communities of practice in a variety of settings including: courts of law, computer software design, the piloting of airliners, the coordination of air traffic control, and traffic management in underground railway systems.
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This book brings together contributions from researchers within various social science disciplines who seek to redefine the methods and topics that constitute the study of work. A key theme in the material is the relationship between theory and practice. This is not an abstract problem of interest merely to social scientists. Rather, it is discussed as an issue that working people address whenever they attempt to understand a task and communicate its demands. Mindful practices and communicative interaction are examined as communities of practice in a variety of work settings.
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The authors contributing to this volume represent a growing concern within anthropology, psychology, communications, sociology, sociology of science, and cognitive science for redefining the methods and topics that constitute the study of work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cooperative prototyping sessions, expedited climb, firewall thrust, laboratory signatures, prototyping workshop, disturbance handling, socioeconomic adjustment, line control rooms, jet bridge, scientific knower, community physiotherapist, signal assistants, gate monitors, frame task, plea form, disturbance orientation, cockpit system, complex sheet, current work practice, arraignment court, team navigation, thrust levers, company agenda, machine uptime, sidebar conference Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Oxford Circus, Line Control Room, Harvard University Press, University of California, University of Chicago Press, Bakerloo Line, David Middleton, San Diego, Academic Press, Lucy Suchman, Free Press, Basic Books, Little League Park, Baker Street, Charing Cross, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Leigh Star, United States, Englewood Cliffs, Los Angeles, Piccadilly Circus, Aldine de Gruyter, American Anthropologist New!
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- Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) by Seth Chaiklin on 4 pages
- Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books) by Edwin Hutchins on page 14, page 93, and page 276
- Science as Practice and Culture by Andrew Pickering on page 14, page 276, and page 316
- Studies in Ethnomethodology (Social and Political Theory) by Harold Garfinkel on page 92, page 128, and page 254
- Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life by Jean Lave on page 14, page 231, and page 255
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