On Sacks

Methodology, Materials, and Inspirations

William Housley editor Richard Fitzgerald editor Robin James Smith editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:31st Dec '20

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This hardback is available in another edition too:

On Sacks cover

This book is devoted to the reintroduction of the remarkable approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks. Sacks’s original analyses – concerned with the lived detail of action and language-in-interaction, discoverable in members’ actual activities – demonstrated a means of doing sociology that had previously seemed impossible. In so doing, Sacks provided for highly technical, detailed, yet stunningly simple solutions to some of the most trenchant troubles for the social sciences relating to language, culture, meaning, knowledge, action, and social organisation. In this original collection, scholars working in a range of different fields, including sociology, human geography, communication and media studies, social psychology, and linguistics, outline the ways in which their work has been inspired, influenced, and shaped by Sacks’s approach, as well as how their current research is taking Sacks’s legacy forward in new directions. As such, the collection is intended to provide both an introduction to, and critical exploration of, the work of Harvey Sacks and its continued relevance for the analysis of contemporary society.

‘With this volume, the editors have created a successful compilation of texts on aspects of Harvey Sacks’ work that is unrivaled in terms of thematic and disciplinary breadth … The authors manage, on the one hand, to present well-known and established topics and perspectives of Sacks’ work and their continuations in different research contexts, and on the other hand to show less explored possibilities for connection.’ - Dominik Gerst, Svenja Heuser and Maximilian Krug, Qualitative Social Research (translation)

'This book keeps connection with Sacks’ brilliance, and is a reminder of the mirandum of Sacks’ work. The chapters are written in an engaging manner with authors sharing details of their first encounters with Sacks’ work.' - Timothy Halkowski, Symbolic Interaction

ISBN: 9780367111038

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 476g

236 pages