R P Mcdermott

Biographic Data

ID107684
NAMER P Mcdermott
GIVEN NAMESR P
FAMILY NAMEMcdermott
SIGNATUREMCDERMOTT R P
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS104
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
H-INDEX3

  • The acquisition of a child by a learning disability

    Open AccessR P Mcdermott, Ray McdermottCHAPTERUnderstanding Practice1993

    Conceived as a deficiency in capacity, feeblemindedness isolates the subject by virtue of that deficiency. In seeking a definite cause of feeblemindedness one is denying that it can have any meaning – that is, a history – or that it may correspond to a situation . (Maud Mannoni, 1972, p. 44) The interiority of pains, afterimages and spots before the eyes cannot impugn the overt, public character of cognitive skills, or the external aims of practi…

  • Erving Goffman: Exploring the Interaction Order

    R P Mcdermott, Ray Mcdermott et al.ARTICLELanguage1992

  • Teaching, Relating, and Learning

    Eric Bredo, R P Mcdermott et al.ARTICLEEducational Researcher1992

  • The Explanation of Minority School Failure, Again

    Open AccessR P Mcdermott, Ray McdermottARTICLEAnthropology & Education Quarterly1987Cited by: 30

    Most explanations of minority school failure incorporate native definitions of both failure and minority group membership. The power of such explanations is limited by their starting assumptions, and they function primarily as an apology for our present system. Minority school failure and its explanation by social scientists are two levels of the same process that we need to confront. ETHNOGRAPHY OF SCHOOLING, SCHOOL FAILURE, MINORITY EDUCATION

  • Linguistic Indeterminacy and Social Context in Utterance Interpretation

    John Dore, John C Dore et al.ARTICLELanguage1982Cited by: 27References: 5

    LINGUISTIC INDETERMINACY AND SOCIAL CONTEXT IN UTTERANCE INTERPRETATION John DoreR. P. McDermott Baruch College,Teachers College, City University of New YorkColumbia University Two approaches to the problem of interpreting utterances are sketched: a structural account at the levels of sentence and speech act, and an interactional account of their functions and consequences as constitutive of the social order in which they occur. For the problem o…

  • The Social Organization of Behavior: Interactional Approaches

    R P Mcdermott, Ray Mcdermott et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Anthropology1978

    This review deals with a more principled and powerful formulation of the social organization of behavior. It calls for a description of the ways people organize concerted activities in each other's presence. We review research that adopts methods which assume that a person's behavior is best described in terms of the behavior of those immediately about that person, those with whom the person is doing interactional work in the construction of reco…

  • Criteria for an Ethnographically Adequate Description of Concerted Activities and their Contexts

    Open AccessR P Mcdermott, Ryan Mcdermott et al.ARTICLESemiotica1978Cited by: 46

  • Doing the social order: Some ethnographic advances from communicational analysis and ethnomethodology

    R P Mcdermott, Ray Mcdermott et al.ARTICLEReviews in Anthropology1976Cited by: 1References: 4

    Hugh Mehan and Houston Wood. The Reality of Ethnomethodology. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1975. x + 258 pp. Bibliography and index. $11.50. Albert E. Scheflen. Communicational Structure: Analysis of a Psychotherapy Transaction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973. xiv + 378 pp. Charts, tables, figures, bibliography and appendices. $15.00

  • Church and State in Northern Ireland

    Open AccessR P McdermottARTICLETheology1969