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In Week 5, we will step back from ethnography and return to #ConversationAnalysis and #MembershipCategorizationAnalysis. I assigned articles by @kevinawhitehead.bsky.social and @tianhao.bsky.social and am excited to explore how people manage "racial commonsense" in everyday life with my students!
Week 5: Race in Everyday Life Whitehead, Kevin A. 2009. “‘Categorizing the Categorizer’: The Management of Racial Common Sense in Interaction.” Social Psychology Quarterly 72(4):325–342. Zhang, Tianhao. 2024. “Identifying the Unidentified Race: A Study of Normative Features of Commonsense Knowledge of Racism in Asian Members’ Online Interaction.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Online First: https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492241298254 Recommended: Whitehead, Kevin A., and Gene H. Lerner. 2009. “When Are Persons ‘White’?: On Some Practical Asymmetries of Racial Reference in Talk-in-Interaction.” Discourse & Society 20(5):613–41. Rawls, Anne Warfield. 2000. “‘Race’ as an Interaction Order Phenomenon: W. E. B. Du Bois’s ‘Double Consciousness’ Thesis Revisited.” Sociological Theory 18(2):241–274. Timmermans, Stefan, and Iddo Tavory. 2020. “Racist Encounters: A Pragmatist Semiotic Analysis of Interaction.” Sociological Theory 38(4):295–317. Zhang, Jienian. 2023. “Playing with Oppression: Latinx Students’ Use of Humor to Navigate Assumed Racism.” Social Psychology Quarterly 86(3):256–274.
October 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
lizstokoe.bsky.social
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November 15, 2024 at 10:45 PM
philhutchinson.bsky.social
Very interesting & insightful article on the categorizational asymmetries in interaction by @robinjsmith.bsky.social

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Categorizational Asymmetries in Context: Producing and Resisting Policeable Scenes
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