edited by Paul Drew, Geoffrey Raymond and Darin Weinberg.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
SAGE,
2006.
1 online resource (xi, 233 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-227) and index.
The language of social science: a brief introduction / Darin Weinberg -- pt. I. Talk-in-interaction in the context of research methodologies. Standardization-in-interaction: the survey interview / Douglas W. Maynard and Nora Cate Schaeffer ; Interaction in interviews / Robin Wooffitt and Sue Widdicombe ; Analysing interaction in focus groups / Sue Wilkinson ; When documents 'speak': documents, language and interaction / Paul Drew ; Observation, video and ethnography: case studies in Aids counselling and greetings / Anssi Peräkylä ; Language, dialogue and ethnographic objectivity / Darin Weinberg -- pt. II. Talk-in-interaction in the context of research in fields of substantive sociological research. Questions at work: yes/no type interrogratives in institutional contexts / Geoffrey Raymond ; Understanding news media: the relevance of interaction / Steven E. Clayman ; Talking sex and gender / Celia Kitzinger ; Anomalies and ambiguities: finding and discounting the relevance of race in interracial relationships / Byron Burkhalter ; Using talk to study the policing of gangs and its recordwork / Albert J. Meehan.
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Systematically focusing on how sociological methods are essentially conducted through forms of spoken interaction, and how these interactions shape the results that emerge in research, the book demonstrates: how spoken interactions shape the outcomes of core research methodologies; the role which talk-in-interaction plays in key substantive areas of sociology notably race, crime, gender and media; the interactional underpinnings of research methodologies.