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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458139003321

Titolo

Talking and interaction in social research methods [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Paul Drew, Geoffrey Raymond and Darin Weinberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 2006

ISBN

1-281-24025-7

1-84920-999-5

9786611240257

1-84787-704-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DrewPaul

RaymondGeoffrey

WeinbergDarin

Disciplina

300.72

302.072

Soggetti

Social sciences - Research - Methodology

Sociolinguistics

Social interaction

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-227) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Transcription Symbols; Chapter 1 - The Language of Social Science: A Brief Introduction; Part I: Talk-in-Interaction in the Context of Research Methodologies; Chapter 2 - Standardization-in-Interaction: The Survey Interview; Chapter 3 - Interaction in Interviews; Chapter 4 - Analysing Interaction in Focus Groups; Chapter 5 - When Documents 'Speak': Documents, Language and Interaction; Chapter 6 - Observation, Video and Ethnography: Case Studies in Aids Counselling and Greetings; Chapter 7 - Language, Dialogue and Ethnographic Objectivity

Part II: Talk-in-Interaction in the Context of REsearch in Fields of Substantive Sociological ResearchChapter 8 - Questions at Work: Yes/No Type Interrogatives in Institutional Contexts; Chapter 9 - Understanding News Media: The Relevance of Interaction; Chapter 10 - Talking Sex and Gender; Chapter 11 - Anomalies and Ambiguities:



Finding and Discounting the Relevance of Race in Interracial Relationships; Chapter 12 - Using Talk to Study the Policing of Gangs and its Recordwork; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This text is aimed at an undergraduate and Master's audience in sociology and social research, showing the crucial part that spoken interaction plays in the conduct and products of conventional sociological methodologies.