Silverman1994
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Silverman1994 |
| Author(s) | David Silverman, Jaber F. Gubrium |
| Title | Competing Strategies for Analyzing the Contexts of Social Interaction |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Journal | Sociological Inquiry |
| Volume | 64 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 179–198 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1475-682X.1994.tb00387.x |
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Abstract
A perennial issue of sociological analysis is how to address the details of interaction without acknowledging the structurally broad or the subjectively meaningful contexts within which the details occur. The issue centers on the relation between “how” and “why” questions of social order. This article deals with the issue as it emerges in the methodological debate between conversation analysts and ethnomethodologically oriented ethnographers over how to analyze the contexts of social interaction. Accepting the importance of why questions, it is argued that one's initial move should be to pay close attention to the how's of social interaction–either the local production or the local enactment of contexts. Against those ethnomethodologists who insist on keeping why questions suspended, we accept the utility of raising why questions once how questions have been dealt with.
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