ABSTRACT
Speaking temporarily and misleadingly, but for the while unavoidably, in generalities, the people shall say that in the natural sciences shop floor contingencies of the day’s work in the full quiddity of their real time, technical, performative details in a particular natural science specify the particular science in and as its phenomena as a distinctive discovering science. This chapter announces a program and policies of ethnomethodological studies directed to respecifying the natural sciences as discovering sciences of practical action. For bench sciences in the natural sciences the day’s work has familiar, easily recognized contingencies. Issues were posed and distractions were introduced by everyone replacing examinable practices with glosses. Troubles were assured because the people had to obtain, by talking with scientists, descriptions of discovering practices that are distinctive to the practitioner’s particular science. Work-site contingencies in the natural sciences were collected and examined.
