Button1987

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Button1987
BibType ARTICLE
Key Button1987
Author(s) Graham Button
Title Answers as interactional products: two sequential practices used in interviews
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Tag(s) EMCA, Interviews, Answers
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Year 1987
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Journal Social Psychology Quarterly
Volume 50
Number 2
Pages 160–171
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Abstract

A substantive field of research in sociology and social psychology is invoked in a characterization of a speech exchange system: the interview. One answer given by a candidate interviewed for a teaching post is considered in order: (1) to provide for the interview as interactionally achieved in the organization of speech exchange; and (2) to show that sequential structures constitute an "interview orthodoxy" and are used by interviewers to then constitute the intelligibility of the attribution of personal characteristics to a candidate. In the course of so doing, two further points emerge as worthy of future investigation: (1) there is a seriousness to suggesting that the systematic investigation of a speech exchange system in itself may be a method for addressing the aspects of social structure; and (2) an indication is given of what it would take to warrantably invoke a social context as relevant for human conduct.

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