Michael Lynch (ethnomethodologist) explained

Michael E. Lynch (born 17 October 1948),^[1] is an emeritus professor at the department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University.^[2] His works are particularly concerned with ethnomethodological approaches in science studies. Much of his research has addressed the role of visual representation in scientific practice.

From 2002-2012 he was the editor of Social Studies of Science.^[3] In 2016, he won the Society for Social Studies of Science's J. D. Bernal Prize for distinguished contributions to the field.^[4]

Awards

• 1995 Robert K. Merton Professional award, Science, Knowledge and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association
• 2011 Distinguished Publication Award, Ethnomethodology/Conversation Analysis Section of the American Sociological Association
• 2016 John Desmond Bernal Prize
• 2020 Garfinkel-Sacks Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Ethnomethodology/Conversation Analysis Section of the American Sociological Association

Selected bibliography

Books

• Book: Lynch, Michael . Art and artifact in laboratory science: a study of shop work and shop talk in a research laboratory . registration . Routledge & Kegan Paul . London Boston . 1985 . 9780710097538 .
• Book: Lynch . Michael . Woolgar . Steve . Steve Woolgar . Representation in scientific practice . . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 1990 . 9780262620765 .
• Book: Lynch, Michael . Scientific practice and ordinary action: ethnomethodology and social studies of science . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England New York . 1993 . 9780521431521 .
• Book: Lynch . Michael . Sharrock . Wes . Harold Garfinkel (4 volume set) . . London Thousand Oaks, California . 2003 . 9780761974598 .
• Book: Lynch . Michael . Wajcman . Judy . Hackett . Edward J. . Amsterdamska . Olga . Judy Wajcman . The handbook of science and technology studies . MIT Press Published in cooperation with the Society for the Social Studies of Science . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 2008 . 3rd . 9781435605046 .
• Book: Lynch . Michael . Cole . Simon . McNally . Ruth . Jordan . Kathleen . Truth machine the contentious history of DNA fingerprinting . registration . University of Chicago Press . Chicago . 2008 . 9780226498089 .
• Book: Lynch . Michael . Sharrock . Wes . Ethnomethodology (4 volume set) . Sage . Benchmarks in Research Methods . Los Angeles . 2011 . 9781848604414 .
• Book: Lynch, Michael . Science and technology studies: critical concepts in the social sciences (4 volume set) . Routledge . Oxon New York . 2012 . 9780415581820 .
• Book: Lynch . Michael . Woolgar . Steve . Coopmans . Catelijne . Vertesi . Janet . Steve Woolgar . Representation in scientific practice revisited . . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 2014 . 9780262525381 .

Journal articles

• Lynch . Michael . Garfinkel . Harold . Livingston . Eric . Harold Garfinkel . The work of a discovering science construed with materials from the optically discovered pulsar . Philosophy of the Social Sciences . 11 . 2 . 131–158 . 10.1177/004839318101100202 . June 1981 . 143072970 .
• Lynch . Michael . The externalized retina: Selection and mathematization in the visual documentation of objects in the life sciences . Human Studies . 2-3 . 11 . 201–234 . 10.1007/BF00177304 . April 1988 . 59776975 .
• Lynch . Michael . Woolgar . Steve . Steve Woolgar . Introduction: Sociological orientations to representational practice in science . Human Studies . 2-3 . 11 . 99–116 . 10.1007/BF00177300 . April 1988 . 143536396 .
• Lynch . Michael . Representation is overrated: some critical remarks about the use of the concept of representation in science studies . . 2 . 1 . 137–149 . 10.1353/con.1994.0015 . Winter 1994 .
• Lynch . Michael . From naturally occurring data to naturally organized ordinary activities: comment on Speer . . 4 . 4 . 531–537 . 10.1177/14614456020040040801 . August 2002 . 144475763 .
• Lynch . Michael . From Ruse to Farce . . 36 . 6 . 819–826 . 10.1177/0306312706067897 . December 2006 . 143851225 .
• Lynch . Michael . Cody . Cyrus C.M. . Test objects and other epistemic things: a history of a nanoscale object . . 43 . 3 . 423–458 . 10.1017/S0007087409990689 . September 2010 . 13342372 .
• Lynch . Michael . Still emerging after all these years . . 41 . 1 . 3–4 . 10.1177/0306312710396569 . February 2011 . 146494689 . free .
• Lynch . Michael . Editorial . . 41 . 6 . 767–768 . 10.1177/0306312711427368 . December 2011 . 220719334 . free .
• Lynch . Michael . Ad hoc special section on ethnomethodological studies of science, mathematics, and technical activity: Introduction . . 41 . 6 . 835–837 . 10.1177/0306312711427369 . December 2011 . 147128507 .
• Lynch . Michael . Harold Garfinkel (29 October 1917 – 21 April 2011): A remembrance and reminder . . 41 . 6 . 927–942 . 10.1177/0306312711423434 . December 2011 . 144144921 .
• Lynch . Michael . Science, truth, and forensic cultures: The exceptional legal status of DNA evidence . Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C . 44 . 1 . 60–70 . 10.1016/j.shpsc.2012.09.008 . March 2013 . 23117027 .

External links

• Lynch's Cornell profile page
• Radical Ethnomethodology workshop organized by Lynch

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lynch, Michael, 1948- . Library of Congress . 14 February 2015 . (born 10-17-48; Ph.D. in social sciences, Univ. of California, Irvine, 1979; visiting lecturer, Univ. of California, Irvine) .
2. Web site: Profile page: Michael E. Lynch . Cornell University.
3. Lynch . Michael . Changes . . 42 . 2 . 167–169 . 10.1177/0306312712437521 . April 2012 . 220724943 . free .
4. Web site: 4S Prizes | Society for Social Studies of Science.