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
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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"
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Week 6: February 11
Cultural Hegemony in Interaction |
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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
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| 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"
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Week 8: February 25
Interactional Approaches to Inclusion and Exclusion |
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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 |
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Week 10: March 11
Student Presentations |
| Project presentations: Students enrolled for only one quarter |
Finals Week: Wednesday, March 16
Student Presentations
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Two copies of student projects due in class
Project presentations: Students enrolled for two-quarter sequence |