Maynard1988
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Maynard1988 |
| Author(s) | Douglas W. Maynard |
| Title | Language, interaction, and social problems |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Social Problems, Goffman, Interaction Order |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Journal | Social Problems |
| Volume | 35 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 311–334 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.2307/800590 |
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Abstract
This paper addresses the question of why the study of language and interaction matters to the sociology of social problems. The proposed answer is that such study lends to understanding what Goffman called the “interaction order.” Language studies, that is, have a first-order concern with how talk and interaction work; as a byproduct, they offer a different standpoint for a social organizational understanding of such traditionally-identified social problems as subcultures, conflict, power, troubles, and institutional processing. The appeal here is not for investigating micro-analytic dimensions of abstractly-defined social problems, but for approaching the interaction order as a substantive domain in its own right.
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