What Is Trans-Sequential Analysis?

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Abstract

Trans-sequential analysis (TSA) is one of the most sophisticated and potentially most promising forms of ethnomethodologically inspired research to have been developed in the last two-to-three decades. And yet, it remains virtually unknown in the English-speaking world.. This paper will serve as an introduction to TSA and its efforts to radicalize ethnomethodology and in particular ethnomethodological ethnography. It will 1) describe TSA’s conceptual and methodological underpinnings and how it looks to advance ethnomethodological research 2) situate TSA vis a vis broader developments within sociology more generally, and show how TSA both reflects those developments, but is also an effort to move past some of the limitations inherent within them, and 3) provide a brief discussion of how we have used TSA in our own research and how we think it can best be used by others.

Authors

• Matthew J. Mahler, Yale University

• Mirco Liefke, Freie Universität Berlin