SOCI 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Conversation Analysis, Implicature, Symbolic Interactionism
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Much of the literature looks at how scientists negotiate theories and beliefs in the face of the body of evidence. This article instead focuses on the way that raw data becomes evidence. Ambiguities, omissions, technical errors, etc. complicate the fixation. Conversational devices are used to resolve these issues. Interactionists: the interaction is the basic object that society and individuals are built from. Careful dissection of those interactions is therefore a crucial method. Interactionists: the instrumental side of interaction (communication, manipulation, persuasion, etc. ) is often secondary to the situation of the interaction. Most important is that the interaction order works out.
