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 Linguistics 258A/Sociology 242 Syllabus | Requirements | Readings | Materials  | ERes 

SYLLABUS

Week 1: January 7
Difference as an Interactional Accomplishment
  • Smith, "Foreword" (in F&W)
  • Fenstermaker and West, "Introduction" (in F&W)
  • West and Zimmerman, "Doing Gender" (in F&W)
  • Kitzinger, "Doing Feminist Conversation Analysis"

Recommended

  • Sacks, "On Doing 'Being Ordinary'"
  • Garfinkel, "Passing and the Managed Achievement of Sex Status in an 'Intersexed' Person Part 1" and Appendix
  • Jefferson, "A Note on Laughter in 'Male-Female' Interaction" (This reading will be discussed by our guest speaker during the first week; interested students may wish to read it after the first class meeting.)
Guest speaker: Don Zimmerman
Week 2: January 14
Mechanisms of Difference

Abstract deadline for SALSA Jan. 15
Abstract deadline for ASA Jan. 18

  • Schegloff, "Tutorial on Membership Categorization"
  • Sacks, "Hotrodder: A Revolutionary Category"
  • Sacks, lectures from Lectures on Conversation
    • Spring 1966, Lecture 8
    • Spring 1967, Lecture 12
    • Spring 1967, Lecture 13
    • Spring 1966, Lecture 26
    • Spring 1966, Lecture 28
    • Spring 1966, Lecture 32
    • Fall 1964-Spring 1965, Lecture 9 (excerpt)
  • Sacks, "Some Considerations of a Story Told in Ordinary Conversation"
  • Raymond and Heritage, "The Epistemics of Social Relations: Owning Grandchildren"

Recommended

  • Heritage and Raymond, "The Terms of Agreement"
  • Stokoe, "Doing Gender, Doing Categorization"

Guest speaker: Geoff Raymond

Week 3: January 21
Extending the Approach: Race, Class, and Culture
  • West and Fenstermaker, "Doing Difference" (in F&W)
  • Mori, "The Construction of Interculturality"

Recommended

  • Collins et al., "Symposium on West and Fenstermaker's 'Doing Difference'" (in F&W)
  • Fenstermaker and West, "'Doing Difference' Revisited" (in F&W)

Guest speaker: Sarah Fenstermaker

Week 4: January 28
The Interactional Relevance of Category-Bound Difference

Deadline for data set for term project

  • Schegloff, "Whose Text? Whose Context?"
  • Schegloff, "Conversation Analysis, Then and Now"

Recommended

  • Billig and Schegloff, "Critical Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis: An Exchange"

Guest speaker: Emanuel A. Schegloff

Week 5: February 4
Institutionalizing Difference
  • West and Fenstermaker, "Accountability and Affirmative Action" (in F&W)
  • West, "Not Just 'Doctors' Orders'"

Recommended

  • Dalton and Fenstermaker, "'Doing Gender' Differently" (in F&W)
  • Matoesian, "The Grammaticalization of Participant Roles in the Constitution of Expert Identity"

Week 6: February 11
Cultural Hegemony in Interaction

Abstract deadline for LISO Feb. 15
Abstract deadline for NCA Feb. 16

  • Kitzinger, "Kinship in Action"
  • Kitzinger, "Speaking as a Heterosexual"

Recommended

  • Ochs and Taylor, "The 'Father Knows Best' Dynamic in Dinnertime Narratives"

Guest speaker: Celia Kitzinger

Week 7: February 18
Difference and Public Interaction

Preliminary analysis due

[MB out of town for GLS]

  • Duneier and Molotch, "Talking City Trouble"
  • Gardner, "Passing By"

Recommended

  • Bailey, "Communicative Behavior and Conflict between African-American Customers and Korean Immigrant Retailers in Los Angeles"
  • Ryoo, "Achieving Friendly Interactions"
Week 8: February 25
Interactional Approaches to Inclusion and Exclusion

Abstract deadline for AAA March 1

  • Goodwin,   "Exclusion in Girls' Peer Groups"
  • Ochs et al., "Inclusion as Social Practice: Views of Children with Autism"

Recommended

  • Goffman, "Stigma and Social Identity"
Guest speaker: Candy Goodwin
Week 9: March 4
Studying Difference: Current Trends and New Directions
Week 10: March 11
Student Presentations
Project presentations: Students enrolled for only one quarter

Finals Week: Wednesday, March 16
Student Presentations

Two copies of student projects due in class

Project presentations: Students enrolled for two-quarter sequence

 

 

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