ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book suggests that differentiating an ethnomethodological study of work from sociological studies requires not only differentiating it from the sociology of work, it also requires differentiating it from a recent body of literature derived from social studies of science that has accumulated around the domains of technology and engineering: for want of a better phrase, the social construction of technology. The studies of technology and of its production are largely motivated by opposition to various received, and primarily, philosophical conceptions of technology, with materials on technology's production and use serving as counter-instances to such conceptions. Distributed cognition articulates a cognitive understanding of human doings, particulary in relationship to the ways in which technology is used to mediate between so-called cognitive processes of different individuals working together.
