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‘face’ and face-work are overarching social science concepts which assist social scientists
 
in doing their descriptive work. This paper outlines aspects of ethnomethodology’s
 
contribution to the study of ‘face’ and the doing of face-work in terms of an interactional
 
accomplishment. While this occupied Goffman, he did not use detailed data of the kind
 
this paper uses – that is, audio/video recordings and subsequent detailed transcriptions of
 
members’ everyday naturally occurring interaction. The paper will reproduce one strip of
 
interaction drawn from a wider ethnographic study of senior organizational members
 
doing their strategy work across time and space. The analytical interest is focused on just
 
two aspects: one is Garfinkel’s notion of themoral accountability of action, and the second
 
draws on Sacks’ seminal work on membership categorization devices. The latter brings to
 
our attention the predicates or ‘rights and obligations’ pertaining to categories. Moreover,
 
when a breach is discerned on this front, then emotional displays are skillfully warranted
 
as the excerpt indicates. Examining members interactional accomplishment of such
 
phenomena as proposed here will be shown to add further empirical and theoretical
 
texture/insight to Goffman’s concept of face and face-work, or, as is proposed here, the
 
moral accountability of interaction constituting social–moral order(s) or ‘society’.
 
 
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Samra-Fredericks2010b
BibType ARTICLE
Key Samra-Fredericks2010b
Author(s) Dalvir Samra-Fredericks
Title Ethnomethodology and the moral accountability of interaction: Navigating the conceptual terrain of ‘face’ and face-work
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Tag(s) EMCA, Ethnomethodology, Face, Face-work, Interaction, Membership categorization devices, Moral accountability of (inter)action
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Year 2010
Language English
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Journal Journal of Pragmatics
Volume 42
Number 8
Pages 2147–2157
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DOI 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.12.019
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Ethnomethodology investigates the mundane, practical work of society's members’ sense-making practices and how they reproduce social–moral orders. It also reminds us that ‘face’ and face-work are overarching social science concepts which assist social scientists in doing their descriptive work. This paper outlines aspects of ethnomethodology's contribution to the study of ‘face’ and the doing of face-work in terms of an interactional accomplishment. While this occupied Goffman, he did not use detailed data of the kind this paper uses – that is, audio/video recordings and subsequent detailed transcriptions of members’ everyday naturally occurring interaction. The paper will reproduce one strip of interaction drawn from a wider ethnographic study of senior organizational members doing their strategy work across time and space. The analytical interest is focused on just two aspects: one is Garfinkel's notion of the moral accountability of action, and the second draws on Sacks’ seminal work on membership categorization devices. The latter brings to our attention the predicates or ‘rights and obligations’ pertaining to categories. Moreover, when a breach is discerned on this front, then emotional displays are skillfully warranted as the excerpt indicates. Examining members interactional accomplishment of such phenomena as proposed here will be shown to add further empirical and theoretical texture/insight to Goffman's concept of face and face-work, or, as is proposed here, the moral accountability of interaction constituting social–moral order(s) or ‘society’.

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