Button1987
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Button1987 |
Author(s) | Graham Button |
Title | Answers as interactional products: two sequential practices used in interviews |
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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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