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Sacks, categories and gender
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posted on 2021-02-26, 10:07 authored by Elizabeth Stokoe, Bogdana Huma, Derek EdwardsIn this chapter, we chart our journey from reading Harvey Sacks’s work on conversation analysis and membership categories to applying it in research on gender and language. We tell our interconnected story as three generations of PhD supervisors and students working in discursive psychology. Discursive psychology’s core aim, aligned to conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, is the respecification of psychology’s topics (e.g., cognition, attitudes, memory, prejudice, identity) as member’s orientations; as members’, rather than analysts’, topics. This chapter will describe how we were inspired by Sacks to interrogate identity through the sequential analysis of membership categories. We show how researchers can ‘capture’ gender as it is made relevant for the doing of some action in sequences of conversation, and how we might ‘scale up’ from a single case to working with larger datasets.
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On Sacks: Methodology, Materials, and InspirationsPages
62 - 76Publisher
RoutledgeVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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© 2021 selection and editorial matter, Robin James Smith, Richard Fitzgerald and William Housley; individual chapters, the contributorsPublisher statement
This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in On Sacks: Methodology, Materials, and Inspirations on 31 Dec 2020, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9780367111038Publication date
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Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation AnalysisLanguage
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Robin James Smith; Richard Fitzgerald; William HousleyDepositor
Prof Elizabeth Stokoe. Deposit date: 25 February 2021Usage metrics
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