Phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology have many adherents and practitioners throughout the world. The international character of interest in these two areas is exemplified by the scholars from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United States who contributed to this collection. Together they exemplify the kinds of theoretical and research issues that arise in seeking to explore the social world in ways that respect what Edmund Husserl referred to as ...

Les ouvrages de la collection sont écrits par les spécialistes du domaine pour les pédiatres hospitaliers et libéraux ainsi que pour les médecins généralistes. Précis et didactiques, ils fournissent à ces praticiens : - les éléments indispensables pour détecter et reconnaître les pathologies ; - des réponses claires à des situations cliniques précises ; - des critères d'orientation et propositions de conduites à tenir. La néphrologie pédiatrique regroupe des situations cliniques très varié...

The studies in this volume use ethnographic, ethnomethodological, and sociolinguistic research to demonstrate how legal agents conduct their practices and exercise their authority in relation to non-expert participants and broader publics. Instead of treating law as a body of doctrines, or law and society as a relationship between legal institutions and an external society, the studies in this volume closely examine law at work: specific legal practices and social interactions produced in ...