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The study in this book draws on, and weaves together, theoretical notions that arose in different scholarly communities. Among these are anthropologists interested in everyday cognition within and across cultures; sociologists and anthropologists engaged in interpretive (rather than structural) studies of science and technology; and ethnomethodologists concerned with the methods scientists, engineers, and ordinary people (which Lave (1988) empathetically calls just-plain-folks [jpfs]) employed to structure and make sense of their everyday lifeworlds.
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Roth, WM. (1998). Theoretical Foundations. In: Designing Communities. Science & Technology Education Library, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5562-5_1
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