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Revised and expanded version of a paper prepared by invitation for presentation in the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association annual meetings, September 4–8, 1978, San Francisco, California. This draft incorporates (as section seven) a companion piece cited in prior drafts as “Remarks on three contextures of description in ethnomethodology.”
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Heap, J.L. Description in ethnomethodology. Hum Stud 3, 87–106 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02331802
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