For sociology : Reflections on Wes Sharrock's discipline-specific Learning and Teaching corpus

This paper introduces a corpus of Learning and Teaching materials by Wes Sharrock,
which attend to the specificities of sociology as a distinctive academic pursuit.
This paper argues that these materials are attempts to raise the level of sociological
sophistication among students and academic sociologists, and thereby to raise the
profile of sociology within British academia. It was precisely his struggle to understand,
to come to grips with, and to resolve the methodological problems which
underlie the academic discipline that led to his adoption of the thoroughly sociological
discipline of ethnomethodology. A key purpose of this paper is to remind
readers that Wes Sharrock is not limited to the horizons of Ethnomethodology or
Philosophy of Mind, and that he produced a valuable corpus of writing that is regrettably
passed over by attending to his singular achievements in Ethnomethodology.