Full Description
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.
Contents
1. On Sacks: Methodology, Materials, and Inspirations 2. Discovering Sacks 3. Action, Meaning and Understanding: Seeing Sociologically with Harvey Sacks 4. Sacks' Plenum: The Inscription of Social Orders 5. From Ethnosemantics to Occasioned Semantics: The Transformative Influence of Harvey Sacks 6. Sacks, Categories, Language, and Gender 7. A Most Remarkable Fact, for All Intents and Purposes: The Practical Matter of Categorical Truths 8. Sacks: On Omni-relevance and the Layered Texture of Interaction 9. Membership Categorization and the Sequential Multimodal Organisation of Action: Walking, Perceiving, and Talking in Material-spatial Ecologies 10. Revisiting Sacks's Work on Greetings: the "First Position" for Greetings 11. Sacks, Silence, and Self-(de)selection 12. Using Observation as a Basis for Theorising: Children's Interactions and Social Order 13. Membership Categorisation and the Notion of "Omni-relevance" in Everyday Family Interactions 14. Sacks and the Study of the Local Organisation of Second Language Lessons 15. Categorisation Practices, Place, and Perception: Doing Incongruities and the Commonplace Scene as 'Assembled Activity' 16. On Sacks and the Analysis of Racial Categories-in-Action 17. Harvey Sacks, Membership Categorisation, and Social Media
