Sacks, Harvey /
Harvey Sacks (1935-1975) was a sociologist whose work was formed and forged in that context, although he remained open, like all great sociological thinkers, to a variety of ideas and aligned disciplines. He grasped the rich variety of conceptual seams running through a number of intellectual tradit...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2020.
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| Series: | Sacks, Harvey.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Harvey Sacks (1935-1975) was a sociologist whose work was formed and forged in that context, although he remained open, like all great sociological thinkers, to a variety of ideas and aligned disciplines. He grasped the rich variety of conceptual seams running through a number of intellectual traditions that characterised 20th-century American societies. Key sociological figures in his intellectual development include Harold Garfinkel and Erving Goffman. The figure of Sacks continues to resonate across the fields of qualitative methods and social science. The influence is felt most strongly in core analytic domains associated with ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (CA). Sacks is understood to have originated the practice of examining talk-in-interaction as an analytical activity. As previously outlined, Sacks had been influenced by the work of Goffman and ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529747010 1529747015 9781526421036 1526421038 |