MHGoodwin2002

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MHGoodwin2002
BibType ARTICLE
Key MHGoodwin2002
Author(s) Marjorie Harness Goodwin
Title Building power asymmetries in girls' interaction
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Tag(s) EMCA, bullying, children, dispute, gender, peer socialization, peer victimization
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Year 2002
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Journal Discourse & Society
Volume 13
Number 6
Pages 715–730
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DOI 10.1177/0957926502013006752
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School
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Abstract

This study, based on three years of ethnographic research (and over 60 hours of videotaped interaction) in a Southern California elementary school, investigates how enduring asymmetrical relationships among females in a multicultural peer group are built in moment-to-moment interaction. By exploring how relations of power, based on forms of opposition, bullying, and exclusion, are both built interactively and commented upon in female groups, I call into question the generalizability of accounts of female same-sex talk which focus exclusively on cooperative or polite interactive practices. I employ both ethnographically grounded observations and the methodology of conversation analysis to analyze practices for building power asymmetry in naturally occurring same-sex female talk during play and at lunch.

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