This book is devoted to the reintroduction of the remarkable approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks. Sacks’s original analyses – concerned with the lived detail of action and language-in-interaction, discoverable in members’ actual activities – demonstrated a means of doing sociology that had previously seemed impossible. In so doing, Sacks provided for highly technical, detailed, yet stunningly simple solutions to some of the most trenchant troubles for the social sciences relating to language, culture, meaning, knowledge, action, and social organisation. In this original collection, scholars working in a range of different fields, including sociology, human geography, communication and media studies, social psychology, and linguistics, outline the ways in which their work has been inspired, influenced, and shaped by Sacks’s approach, as well as how their current research is taking Sacks’s legacy forward in new directions. As such, the collection is intended to provide both an introduction to, and critical exploration of, the work of Harvey Sacks and its continued relevance for the analysis of contemporary society.
Author(s): Robin James Smith (editor), Richard Fitzgerald (editor), William Housley (editor)
Series: Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 236
Tags: ethnomethodology;conversation analysis
Contents
Notes on contributors
1 On Sacks: methodology, materials, and inspirations • Robin James Smith, Richard Fitzgerald, and William Housley
2 Discovering Sacks • Rod Watson
3 Action, meaning and understanding: seeing sociologically with Harvey Sacks • Michael Mair and Wes Sharrock
4 Sacks’s plenum: the inscription of social orders • Andrew P. Carlin
5 From ethnosemantics to occasioned semantics: the transformative influence of Harvey Sacks • Jack Bilmes
6 Sacks, categories, language, and gender • Elizabeth Stokoe, Bogdana Huma, and Derek Edwards
7 A most remarkable fact, for all intents and purposes: the practical matter of categorical truths • Jessica Robles
8 Sacks: omni-relevance and the layered texture of interaction • Richard Fitzgerald
9 Membership categorization and the sequential multimodal organization of action: walking, perceiving, and talking in material-spatial ecologies • Lorenza Mondada
10 Revisiting Sacks’s work on greetings: the ‘first position’ for greetings • Christian Licoppe
11 Sacks, silence, and self-(de)selection • Elliott M. Hoey
12 “Using observation as a basis for theorizing”: children’s interactions and social order • Susan Danby
13 Membership categorisation and the notion of “omni-relevance” in everyday family interactions • Sara Keel
14 Sacks and the study of the local organization of second language lessons • Ricardo Moutinho
15 Categorisation practices, place, and perception: doing incongruities and the commonplace scene as ‘assembled activity’ • Robin James Smith
16 On Sacks and the analysis of racial categories-in-action • Kevin A. Whitehead
17 Harvey Sacks, membership categorization and social media • William Housley
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