Categorization, authorization and blame - negotiation in conversation

Sociology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1978, Pages 105-113

  Watson, D R ^a  

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EID: 84977224291     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003803857801200106     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. H. Sacks, ‘On the Usability of Conversational Data for Doing Sociology’, in D. Sudnow (ed.), Studies in Social Interaction, New York: The Free Press, 1972.
2. W. W. Sharrock, ‘On Owning Knowledge’, in Roy Turner (ed.), Ethnomethodology, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974.
3. Some aspects of the phenomenon of recategorization have been examined in D. R. Watson, ‘ “Going for Brothers”: Making Sense of Analytic Observations of Black Ghetto Culture in the U.S.A.’ (mimeo, Sociology Dept., University of Manchester).
4. Jeff Coulter, ‘Beliefs and Practical Understanding’, to appear in George Psathas (ed.), Recent Studies in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, Boston: Irvington Press (forthcoming).
5. See H. Garfinkel, Studies in Ethnomethodology, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1967, Chapter 3.
6. See D. E. Smith, ‘“K is Mentally Ill”: The Anatomy of a Factual Account', in this issue.
7. and M. Pollner, ‘ “The Very Coinage of Your Brain”: The Anatomy of Reality Disjunctures’, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. 5, pp. 411-30, 1976
8. Also Jeff Coulter, ‘Perceptual Accounts and Interpretive Assymetries’, Sociology, vol. 10, no. 1, 1976.
9. D. Benson, and P. Drew, ‘Was There Firing on Sandy Row That Night?’. Sociological Inquiry (forthcoming).
10. Some segments of this paper were presented in a much earlier form in my Ph.D. thesis: ‘Calls for Help: A Sociological Analysis of Telephoned Calls to a “Crisis Intervention Centre”’, Sociology Department, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K., July 1975 (2 vols), and ‘The Language of Race Relations: Making Racial Discriminations’, Journal of Comparative Sociology (Canada Sociological Research Centre, University of Ottawa), December 1974.