On Formal Structures of Practical Actions

The fact that natural language serves persons doing sociology, laymen or professionals, as circumstances, and as resources of their inquiries, furnishes to the technology of their inquiries and to their practical sociological reasoning its circumstances, and its resources. The remedial practices of practical sociological reasoning are aimed at accomplishing a thoroughgoing distinction between objective and indexical expressions with which to make possible the substitution of objective for indexical expressions. A contrast between ethnomethodology's treatment of formal structures and that of constructive analysis is specified by the characteristic that it is as masters of natural language that constructive…