Graham Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 169394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2279-7431 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Pluscarden Rising
This article concludes that the Pluscarden rising is more than the localised protest that previous historians have accepted, and that it was a planned Royalist rising. The story of the rising is outlined before a detailed approach is taken to the people involved. The international context of Royalist planning is examined. A new analysis of the reasons for the rising is then put forward
Julianna Grigg, The Philosopher King and the Pictish Nation
What Can Ethnomethodology Say About Power
An interview in which a Dene Tha man talks about his people's powers (echint'e) and a passage in which an eminent social scientist discusses sociologically theorized power are examined for the methods by which these powers are produced as objective facts. The methods invite comparison; for example, both the Dene Tha and the theorist characterize visible and tangible phenomena as pointing to underlying forces that are invisible and intangible. If …
Excusing Psychology
Listening to the Native: The Non‐ironic Alternative to “Dialogic” Ethnography (as well as to Functional ism, Marxism and Structuralism)
La présente étude porte sur 29 lignes de notes de terrain constituées de la transcription intégrate d'une entrevue sur les pratiques chama‐nistes néfastes du nord de l'Alberta. Elle a pour but de sensibiliser les ethnographes à certaines possibilités qu'oflrent l'ethnométhodologie et l'analyse du discours pour l'nterprétation des entrevues et des notes de terrain ethnographiques. Elle démontre que le contexte culturel, généralement considéré comm…
The mundane miracle of social order
Anthropologists normally search for the bases of social order among exotic societies or in extraordinary situations, and so tend to overlook the utterly commonplace but fundamental order which people build into their interaction as it occurs. A short transcript of soldiers' talk is analysed to demonstrate how this order is produced
A Reply to David Francis
A Comparison of Social Constructionist and Ethnomethodological Descriptions of How a Judge Distinguished Between the Erotic and the Obscene
In 1985, a member of the Canadian judiciary handed down a written judgment in which he distinguished between erotica and obscene matter. The judgment attracted the scorn of some normative sociologists, who complained of the insufficiency of the social psychological research on which it was based. Their reaction prompts a review of the judgment in the light of social constructionism and of ethnomethodology; this, in turn, prompts a comparison of s…
Text in context: Contributions to Ethnomethodology
Gold in; Gold out: The Objectification of Dene Tha Accounts of Dreams and Visions
In the course of constituting the "other world," the Dene Tha of northwestern Alberta selectively assemble and selectively interpret data. They orient to the result as if it existed independently of their methods of constituting it. These methods are similar to those that Euro-Canadians employ to constitute Euro-Canadian realities, except in one respect: for the Dene Tha, "true knowledge" is acquired only at firsthand, and that which is "firsthan…
Definitive geertz
Geertz declares that commitment to an interpretive approach to the study of culture entails a commitment to a view of ethnographic assertion as "essentially contestable" nevertheless, the text of one of his most celebrated essays, "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight", is realist (i.e., it presupposes a reality which obtains independently of his description of it) and the object of realist writing is to elicit from the reader a single, unp…
Make Me Reflexive, but Not Yet: Strategies for Managing Essential Reflexivity in Ethnographic Discourse
There is much muddled thinking about reflexivity in the writing of members of the interpretive school of anthropology. The muddle consists, in the first place, in paying lip service to relativism while stubbornly clinging to realism and, in the second place, in claiming to confront reflexivity while merely managing it. The root of the trouble lies in anthropologists' failure to acknowledge that reflexivity is not merely something which one "does,…
The Social Construction of Boundaries between Social and Cultural Anthropology in Britain and North America
Anthropologists' characterizations of social and cultural anthropology are treated, not as definitive descriptions of what the disiplines 'really' are, but as texts in which are embedded interpretive practices, such as reification and rhetoric, by means of which anthropologists constitute them as disciplines in the first place. Until these interpretive practices are made visible, controversy concerning the disciplinary status of our various field…
The reification of ethnicity and its political consequences in the north
Cet article traite des moyens par lesquels les autochtones de Yellowknife contrôlent leurs identités ethniques à l'carintérieur des contraintes imposées par le pouvoir qui est à l'carorigine ainsi que le pouvoir Euro‐canadien, et il explique et analyse en détails les conséquences politiques qui en découlent. II est mentionné que, d'carapres le précepte ethnométhodologique, nous créons continuellement les faits sociaux que nous croyons découvrir. …
On getting nothing back: Managing the meaning of ethnicity in Canada's northwest territories
Passing for White: A Study of Racial Assimilation in a South African School
Passing for White: A Study of Racial Assimilation in a South African School
Race and Science
The Process of Passing for White in South Africa: A Study in Cumulative Ad Hoc‐ery
Des observations faites à Capetown, quant au com‐portement d'éléments de la population mixte qui tente de passer pour blanche, indi‐quent l'existence dans les relations intergroupes d'un processus au cours duquel ces éléments multiplient la nécessité pour les autorités de prendre d'innombrables décisions ad hoc á leur sujet. Tous les membres d'autres groupes qui aspirent à une promotion sociale collective se comportent, vraisemblable‐ment, de la …
Make Me Reflexive, but Not Yet: Strategies for Managing Essential Reflexivity in Ethnographic Discourse
There is much muddled thinking about reflexivity in the writing of members of the interpretive school of anthropology. The muddle consists, in the first place, in paying lip service to relativism while stubbornly clinging to realism and, in the second place, in claiming to confront reflexivity while merely managing it. The root of the trouble lies in anthropologists' failure to acknowledge that reflexivity is not merely something which one "does,…
The Social Construction of Boundaries between Social and Cultural Anthropology in Britain and North America
Anthropologists' characterizations of social and cultural anthropology are treated, not as definitive descriptions of what the disiplines 'really' are, but as texts in which are embedded interpretive practices, such as reification and rhetoric, by means of which anthropologists constitute them as disciplines in the first place. Until these interpretive practices are made visible, controversy concerning the disciplinary status of our various field…
What Can Ethnomethodology Say About Power
An interview in which a Dene Tha man talks about his people's powers (echint'e) and a passage in which an eminent social scientist discusses sociologically theorized power are examined for the methods by which these powers are produced as objective facts. The methods invite comparison; for example, both the Dene Tha and the theorist characterize visible and tangible phenomena as pointing to underlying forces that are invisible and intangible. If …
Gold in; Gold out: The Objectification of Dene Tha Accounts of Dreams and Visions
In the course of constituting the "other world," the Dene Tha of northwestern Alberta selectively assemble and selectively interpret data. They orient to the result as if it existed independently of their methods of constituting it. These methods are similar to those that Euro-Canadians employ to constitute Euro-Canadian realities, except in one respect: for the Dene Tha, "true knowledge" is acquired only at firsthand, and that which is "firsthan…
A Comparison of Social Constructionist and Ethnomethodological Descriptions of How a Judge Distinguished Between the Erotic and the Obscene
In 1985, a member of the Canadian judiciary handed down a written judgment in which he distinguished between erotica and obscene matter. The judgment attracted the scorn of some normative sociologists, who complained of the insufficiency of the social psychological research on which it was based. Their reaction prompts a review of the judgment in the light of social constructionism and of ethnomethodology; this, in turn, prompts a comparison of s…
Definitive geertz
Geertz declares that commitment to an interpretive approach to the study of culture entails a commitment to a view of ethnographic assertion as "essentially contestable" nevertheless, the text of one of his most celebrated essays, "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight", is realist (i.e., it presupposes a reality which obtains independently of his description of it) and the object of realist writing is to elicit from the reader a single, unp…
The reification of ethnicity and its political consequences in the north
Cet article traite des moyens par lesquels les autochtones de Yellowknife contrôlent leurs identités ethniques à l'carintérieur des contraintes imposées par le pouvoir qui est à l'carorigine ainsi que le pouvoir Euro‐canadien, et il explique et analyse en détails les conséquences politiques qui en découlent. II est mentionné que, d'carapres le précepte ethnométhodologique, nous créons continuellement les faits sociaux que nous croyons découvrir. …
On getting nothing back: Managing the meaning of ethnicity in Canada's northwest territories
Listening to the Native: The Non‐ironic Alternative to “Dialogic” Ethnography (as well as to Functional ism, Marxism and Structuralism)
La présente étude porte sur 29 lignes de notes de terrain constituées de la transcription intégrate d'une entrevue sur les pratiques chama‐nistes néfastes du nord de l'Alberta. Elle a pour but de sensibiliser les ethnographes à certaines possibilités qu'oflrent l'ethnométhodologie et l'analyse du discours pour l'nterprétation des entrevues et des notes de terrain ethnographiques. Elle démontre que le contexte culturel, généralement considéré comm…
The mundane miracle of social order
Anthropologists normally search for the bases of social order among exotic societies or in extraordinary situations, and so tend to overlook the utterly commonplace but fundamental order which people build into their interaction as it occurs. A short transcript of soldiers' talk is analysed to demonstrate how this order is produced
The Process of Passing for White in South Africa: A Study in Cumulative Ad Hoc‐ery
Des observations faites à Capetown, quant au com‐portement d'éléments de la population mixte qui tente de passer pour blanche, indi‐quent l'existence dans les relations intergroupes d'un processus au cours duquel ces éléments multiplient la nécessité pour les autorités de prendre d'innombrables décisions ad hoc á leur sujet. Tous les membres d'autres groupes qui aspirent à une promotion sociale collective se comportent, vraisemblable‐ment, de la …
The Process of Passing for White in South Africa: A Study in Cumulative Ad Hoc‐ery
Des observations faites à Capetown, quant au com‐portement d'éléments de la population mixte qui tente de passer pour blanche, indi‐quent l'existence dans les relations intergroupes d'un processus au cours duquel ces éléments multiplient la nécessité pour les autorités de prendre d'innombrables décisions ad hoc á leur sujet. Tous les membres d'autres groupes qui aspirent à une promotion sociale collective se comportent, vraisemblable‐ment, de la …
Race and Science
Passing for White: A Study of Racial Assimilation in a South African School
Passing for White: A Study of Racial Assimilation in a South African School
On getting nothing back: Managing the meaning of ethnicity in Canada's northwest territories
The reification of ethnicity and its political consequences in the north
Cet article traite des moyens par lesquels les autochtones de Yellowknife contrôlent leurs identités ethniques à l'carintérieur des contraintes imposées par le pouvoir qui est à l'carorigine ainsi que le pouvoir Euro‐canadien, et il explique et analyse en détails les conséquences politiques qui en découlent. II est mentionné que, d'carapres le précepte ethnométhodologique, nous créons continuellement les faits sociaux que nous croyons découvrir. …
The Social Construction of Boundaries between Social and Cultural Anthropology in Britain and North America
Anthropologists' characterizations of social and cultural anthropology are treated, not as definitive descriptions of what the disiplines 'really' are, but as texts in which are embedded interpretive practices, such as reification and rhetoric, by means of which anthropologists constitute them as disciplines in the first place. Until these interpretive practices are made visible, controversy concerning the disciplinary status of our various field…
Make Me Reflexive, but Not Yet: Strategies for Managing Essential Reflexivity in Ethnographic Discourse
There is much muddled thinking about reflexivity in the writing of members of the interpretive school of anthropology. The muddle consists, in the first place, in paying lip service to relativism while stubbornly clinging to realism and, in the second place, in claiming to confront reflexivity while merely managing it. The root of the trouble lies in anthropologists' failure to acknowledge that reflexivity is not merely something which one "does,…
Definitive geertz
Geertz declares that commitment to an interpretive approach to the study of culture entails a commitment to a view of ethnographic assertion as "essentially contestable" nevertheless, the text of one of his most celebrated essays, "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight", is realist (i.e., it presupposes a reality which obtains independently of his description of it) and the object of realist writing is to elicit from the reader a single, unp…
Text in context: Contributions to Ethnomethodology
Gold in; Gold out: The Objectification of Dene Tha Accounts of Dreams and Visions
In the course of constituting the "other world," the Dene Tha of northwestern Alberta selectively assemble and selectively interpret data. They orient to the result as if it existed independently of their methods of constituting it. These methods are similar to those that Euro-Canadians employ to constitute Euro-Canadian realities, except in one respect: for the Dene Tha, "true knowledge" is acquired only at firsthand, and that which is "firsthan…
A Reply to David Francis
A Comparison of Social Constructionist and Ethnomethodological Descriptions of How a Judge Distinguished Between the Erotic and the Obscene
In 1985, a member of the Canadian judiciary handed down a written judgment in which he distinguished between erotica and obscene matter. The judgment attracted the scorn of some normative sociologists, who complained of the insufficiency of the social psychological research on which it was based. Their reaction prompts a review of the judgment in the light of social constructionism and of ethnomethodology; this, in turn, prompts a comparison of s…
Listening to the Native: The Non‐ironic Alternative to “Dialogic” Ethnography (as well as to Functional ism, Marxism and Structuralism)
La présente étude porte sur 29 lignes de notes de terrain constituées de la transcription intégrate d'une entrevue sur les pratiques chama‐nistes néfastes du nord de l'Alberta. Elle a pour but de sensibiliser les ethnographes à certaines possibilités qu'oflrent l'ethnométhodologie et l'analyse du discours pour l'nterprétation des entrevues et des notes de terrain ethnographiques. Elle démontre que le contexte culturel, généralement considéré comm…
The mundane miracle of social order
Anthropologists normally search for the bases of social order among exotic societies or in extraordinary situations, and so tend to overlook the utterly commonplace but fundamental order which people build into their interaction as it occurs. A short transcript of soldiers' talk is analysed to demonstrate how this order is produced
Excusing Psychology
What Can Ethnomethodology Say About Power
An interview in which a Dene Tha man talks about his people's powers (echint'e) and a passage in which an eminent social scientist discusses sociologically theorized power are examined for the methods by which these powers are produced as objective facts. The methods invite comparison; for example, both the Dene Tha and the theorist characterize visible and tangible phenomena as pointing to underlying forces that are invisible and intangible. If …
Julianna Grigg, The Philosopher King and the Pictish Nation
The Pluscarden Rising
This article concludes that the Pluscarden rising is more than the localised protest that previous historians have accepted, and that it was a planned Royalist rising. The story of the rising is outlined before a detailed approach is taken to the people involved. The international context of Royalist planning is examined. A new analysis of the reasons for the rising is then put forward
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