Author's Keywords: Habermas, Garfinkel, ethnomethodology, communicative action, indexicality, validity claims, structure-agency	Convention Convention is an application service for managing large or small academic conferences, annual meetings, and other types of events! Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Beemer, Jeffrey. "Validating Indexical Expressions or Situating Communicative Competencies: A Re-examination of the Structure-Agency Problem through an Ethnomethodological/Communicative Action Framework." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA,, Aug 14, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p110520_index.html>

Beemer, J. K. , 2004-08-14 "Validating Indexical Expressions or Situating Communicative Competencies: A Re-examination of the Structure-Agency Problem through an Ethnomethodological/Communicative Action Framework." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA, Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p110520_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Habermas and Garfinkel are an unlikely pair, despite sharing a common distinction for being theoretically obscure. This paper lays out the advantages of considering Habermas and Garfinkel as complimentary perspectives. I argue that what Habermas and Garfinkel are doing is similar enough to suggest an alternative approach to the structure-agency problem. Together they provide us with a basis for thinking about action and its environments not simply in terms of contingent or formal conditions in isolation from one another, but as extensions of an integrated dependency between the local (indexical) contexts in which interactions occur and the rational (pre-theoretical) presuppositions that make such interactions possible. The conditions upon which actors can be identified as agents of their actions or as bound by the structured environments in which they move, are not differentiated in the course of everyday life. This is part of the taken-for-granted features of social interaction. We assume that we formulate our day to day actions and decision making through a real deliberative process while also assuming that our choices are not entirely of our own accord. Only upon reflection do we confront the antinomies of structure and agency. Social action can be represented as either internally or externally governed, each of which can find independent support but when considered together result in contradictions, real or otherwise. This apparent conundrum should give us pause and force us to re-examine our conceptions of structure and agency in light of how we manage to interact throughout the course of our everyday lives.

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