ABSTRACT
The notion of role and 'team structure' evident in the theoretical postulations and recommendations for multidisciplinary team practice is one which is essentially structural functionalist in character. Roles are seen to slot into different types of team structure in a systems type configuration. In the case of the ethnomethodological examination of a multidisciplinary team the pre-specified models of multidisciplinary teamwork similarly fail to capture the situated conversational activity of team members. In terms of situated studies and the operationalisation of empirical principles to applied problems, within the domain of social policy and administration, a situated approach could begin to examine the range of methods that members deploy in carrying out work activities. The adoption of a situated approach within social policy studies would also provide an opportunity to investigate the activity of social policy as an interactive and discursive activity. The notion of situated ethics and resistance may be viewed as notions that are theoretical recommendations for meeting normative concerns.
