Actor and analyst: A response to Coopmans and Button

摘要: We question the logic of Coopmans and Button’s critique our analysis expertise on three grounds. First, their depends a clear distinction between actor analysts that we show cannot be maintained. Second, reticence to allow use taxonomies in expertise, suggesting it is contradicted by own descriptions expert work, accuse them making mistake way they relate commonsense specialist skills. Finally, express puzzlement at antiseptic-like precautions some ethnomethodologists apply analysts’ categories, especially given – as categories sometimes provide superior resource for understanding can change actors’ world well describing it.