taskonomy: a practical approach to knowledge structures

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The New Ethnography spawned studies in cognition focusing on reference, naming, and the relations among labeled categories. Building on this research, we examine the connections between labeled categories and everyday behavior. In day‐to‐day situations, standard labeled segregates are often aspects of taken‐for‐granted knowledge. A task at hand differentially focuses an individual's awareness as strategies for action in the situation are constructed. Knowledge is thus selectively focused and organized in response to constraints of the task. The basic units in this organization are the notions (often unlabeled) of particular processes and things and the complexes of relevant features that people focus on. These units and their interrelations are flexible constructs subject to continual modification as the task at hand changes, [ethnomethodology, ethno‐science, preindustrial technology, New Ethnography, cognition]

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