Motives and social organization: Sociological amnesia, psychological description and the analysis of accounts

Qualitative Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 237-256

  Housley, William ^a   Fitzgerald, Richard ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accounts; Cognition; Discursive psychology; Ethnomethodology; Interactionism; Membership categorization analysis; Motives

Indexed keywords

EID: 41949097229     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794107087483     Document Type: Article

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