Herve Varenne, Clifford Hill, Paul Byers

Ambiguous Harmony

Family Talk and Culture in America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The authors first indicate how one must understand the old recognition that apparently individual behavior within any family must be understood in terms of the whole. They then investigate features of this whole, first as a local production and then in the historical context to which it is respons

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9780893917630
• ISBN-10: 089391763X
• Artikelnr.: 25606836

Autorenporträt

Clifford Hill, Paul Byers

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION The Nature of Families The Culture of Families: What We' Do
Making and Unmaking Families in America Family, Culture and Communication
Observing Actual Families at Work Making One's Family Life in America
Writing One Family's Life in America FAMILY AND COMMUNICATION A HALF HOUR
OF FAMILY LIFE OR THE PRODUCTION OF THE FIRST "TEXTS" The People and the
Physical Setting An Evening's Activities Ways of Knowing The Production of
the Texts The Production of the First Text Transcribing What to Include
What We Did THE MAKING OF AN ANALYSIS The Production of Analytic Texts The
Place of the Figures Within the Overall Text Epilogue THE CONSTRUCTION OF A
CONVERSATION: TALK AND TOPIC He Said "." AND THEN She Said "." The
Identification of Topics The Emergence of Conversational Content The Closet
and the Sink The Culture of Analytic Statements AMBIGUITIES IN THE ANALYSIS
OF FAMILIAL COMMUNICATION: POWER AND STRUCTURE Interaction: War and
Cooperation Power as Action in Society Instances of Family Disagreements
Tokens of Aggravation A Formal Cultural Analysis A Formal Theoretical
Analysis Behavior and Structure PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN AT TALK Talking
with Children Coherence, Coherently "Mom!": The Coherence of Calls for
Attention. " ": The Coherence of Silence A Familial Unison The Gift:
Grammatical and Interactional Musical Chairs The Choice: Constructing the
Child Conversational Accomplishment in Families THE CULTURING OF FAMILIAL
LIFE THE CULTURING OF ACTION Social Fact and Cultural Pattern Culture:
Pattern and Identification A FAMILY'S SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND ITS "CULTURE"
The Organization of a Family's Conversation Parental Gifts: Pencils and
Conversational Turns Simple and Elaborated Systematics for Turn-Taking
Rules for Analysis Transitions The Activities The Actors Temporal
Organization The Social Organization of the Actors The Complex Systematics
for the Organization of Turn-Taking Among the Harveys THE CULTURAL
INDENTIFICATION OF A FAMILY'S CULTURE Culture and Identification The
Culturing of Family Talk: From History to Symbolic "Normalcy" The Harveys
in the United States The Harveys in America: Culturing Culturings "American
Child Rearing Patterns" as Constructed The Harveys in America TALK AND REAL
TALK: VOICES OF SILENCE AND VOICES OF POWER The Present in the Future Seven
Texts A Family at Work: Constructing the Present Establishing the Past:
What Happened? (Re-)Constructing the Past: What "Really" Happened (?) The
Structure of Scholarly Discourse The Concrete Logic of Intertextuality The
Construction of America CONCLUSION: FAMILY, CULTURE, AND PRACTICE From the
Local to the Global and Back Again The Expert: Cultural Conditions and
Directed Activity Sensitivity and Cultural Condition The Responsibilities
of Practice Epilogue, References Appendices Author Index Subject Index