ID - 93478085 TI - Cognition and communication at work AU - Engestrom, Yrjo AU - Middleton, David PY - 1996 SN - 0521441048 0521645662 113917407X 9780521645669 9781139174077 9780521441049 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Primary groups KW - Sociological theories KW - Mass communications KW - Health Sciences KW - Psychiatry & Psychology KW - Communication in organizations. KW - Interpersonal communication. KW - Symbolic interactionism. KW - Interaction, Symbolic KW - Interactionism, Symbolic KW - Symbolic interaction KW - Symbolic-interactionist theory KW - Qualitative research KW - Social psychology KW - Communication KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Organizational communication KW - Organization KW - Methodology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:93478085 AB - This book brings together contributions from researchers within various social science disciplines who seek to redefine the methods and topics that constitute the study of work. They investigate work activity in ways that do not reduce it to a 'psychology' of individual cognition nor to a 'sociology' of societal structures and communication. A key theme in the material is the relationship between theory and practice. This is not an abstract problem of interest merely to social scientists. Rather, it is discussed as an issue that working people address when they attempt to understand a task and communicate its demands. Mindful practices and communicative interaction are examined as situated issues at work in the reproduction of communities of practice in a variety of settings including: courts of law, computer software design, the piloting of airliners, the coordination of air traffic control, and traffic management in underground railway systems. ER -