This paper argues that decision theory can be used to identify diierent attitudes towardsùsability engineering'. The advocates of formal methods and ethnomethodology argue that initial investments ooer substantial beneets to subsequent development. For other groups, high cost techniques are seen to ooer few rewards for interface design. The following pages exploit utility curves to represent th...

For centuries the speculations on man's mental functioning posed a great challenge for the scholars in various disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, sociocultural studies, education, ethnolinguistics, discourse analysis, literary criticism. Researchers have been pondering over the ticklish question: is it the mind making the human society, or is it the society that shapes up the human min...

Abstract This paper offers a critique of learning viewed solely through the categories formal Vs. informal education as used by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( oecd ). is based on perspectives ethnomethodology, conversation analysis sociocultural theory. It considers that any consists construction common object between participants. I examine two possible organizations ...

Emerging research is beginning to explore the role of social bonds in science learning. In this study, I develop a novel conceptual framework extending recent education that has adopted Scheff's bond theory understanding use microsociological methods understand and knowledge construction as contemporaneous phenomena through analysis interactional dynamics. Drawing on ethnomethodology an interpr...

Abstract This article is the editors’ introduction to transcript of a lecture that Harold Garfinkel delivered seminar in 1993. extensively discusses relevance Aron Gurwitsch’s phenomenological treatment Gestalt theory for ethnomethodology. uses term “misreading” signal respecification investigations, and particularly his conceptions contextures, functional significations, phenomenal fields, so ...

Abstract This article investigates the situated orientation to and production of social political norms related pronunciation person names in context announcing next speakers during a meeting. Through detailed multimodal analysis naturally occurring interaction, discusses how participants party's congress Sweden treat chairpersons’ as rendering them (non)normative relating ethnic categories. In...

The author begins with the research on annual rituals in current of structural semiotics, basis which it is possible to define a ritual as text culture. Then, proceeds demonstrate that Actor-Network Theory (ANT) can be natural continuation structural-functional rituals, because these two approaches meet four methodological areas: anthropology and ethnology, structuralism, semiotics (of text) et...

The article covers the procedure and findings of a project investigating issues adaptation, integration sustainability over 300 international students at Ağri İbrahim Çeçen University, 2020-2021. Relying on triangulation approach to research paradigms symbolic interactionism ethnomethodology, acts as precursor creation universal standardized program aimed integrating into academic system all Tu...