Martyn Hammersley

[3] At that time Manchester was a major centre for ethnomethodology, where it was in tension with symbolic interactionism and Marxism, and his work was influenced by all of these approaches.

[7] Hammersley's early research was in the sociology of education, with a particular focus on processes of classroom interaction in secondary schools.

[8] He joined the Open University at a time when it was one of the leading centres for the 'new sociology of education',[9] and was involved in subsequent debates about the character and value of the various kinds of work coming under this heading.

[14] He has written a number of articles on analytic induction (an approach developed by Florian Znaniecki), examining its history.

In What's Wrong with Ethnography?, he advocates what he referred to as "subtle realism",[15] as opposed to various forms of relativism and scepticism.