Reforms as Revolutions

Abstract

The paper is composed of three sections: (1) Addresses the debate between positivism and ethnomethodology; defeats positivism's claims of incorporation or tangentiality; and raises the issue of the revolutionary potential of ethnomethodology itself. (2) Analyzes some of the problems involved in identifying developments and revolutions within bodies of knowledge. (3) Compares conventional and alternative accounts of a particular action setting with which the authors have been specially concerned.