Michael Emmison
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Emmison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Emmison |
| SIGNATURE | EMMISON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 222 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Unbearable Likeness of Being
Like Lascaux palaeolithic cave art, the playroom landscapes of many Euro-American pre-school children betray the ubiquity of animal representations in Western culture. Providing some understanding of why it is that adults engender and utilize animal-based models for children — and most especially why bears occupy a privileged place in this pantheon — is now very much a multi-disciplinary endeavour. The ‘teddy bear’motif pervades and is culturally…
Basically it's the Usual Whole Teen Girl Thing
This article explores the practices of membership categorization in the interactions of clients and counselors on a national Australian helpline (Kids Helpline [KHL]) for children and young persons. Our focus is on membership categories drawn from three membership category devices (MCDs): stage-of-life (SOL), age, and family. Analysis draws on data across different contact modalities-email and web-counseling sessions-to examine how category-gener…
Pranking in Children's Helpline Calls
Pranking can be understood as challenging a normative social order. One environment where pranking occurs is in institutional interaction. The present study examines a sample of pranking calls to telephone helplines for children and young people. Some cases had been posted on YouTube by the person doing the pranking; others were from a sub-collection of possible pranks, extracted from a larger corpus of Australian children's counselling helpline …
Extending client-centered support
The availability and use of online counseling approaches has increased rapidly over the last decade. While research has suggested a range of potential affordances and limitations of online counseling modalities, very few studies have offered detailed examinations of how counselors and clients manage asynchronous email counseling exchanges. In this paper we examine email exchanges involving clients and counselors through Kids Helpline, a national …
Have You Talked with a Teacher Yet?’
When seeking help and support about being bullied, children and young people weigh up the benefits and risks of talking to their friends, parents, teachers and counsellors about their experiences. The focus of this article is calls to an Australian helpline for children and young people where the strategy of ‘talking to the teacher’ is discussed by callers and counsellors as a possible way of dealing with the caller’s bullying situation at school…
Address Terms in Turn Beginnings
This article examines use of address terms by counselors on a telephone counseling service for children and young people. Drawing on conversation analytic findings and methods, we show how personal names are used in the management of structural and interpersonal aspects of counseling interaction. Focusing on address terms in turn beginnings—where a name is used as, or as part of, a preface—the analysis shows that address terms are used in turns t…
Script proposals
Much of the research on the delivery of advice by professionals such as physicians, health workers and counsellors, both on the telephone and in face-to-face interaction more generally, has focused on the theme of client resistance and the consequent need for professionals to adopt particular formats to assist in the uptake of the advice. In this article we consider one setting, Kid’s Helpline, the national Australian counselling service for chil…
Advice-implicative Interrogatives
Interactional research on advice giving has described advice as normative and asymmetric. In this paper we examine how these dimensions of advice are softened by counselors on a helpline for children and young people through the use of questions. Through what we term “advice-implicative interrogatives,” counselors ask clients about the relevance or applicability of a possible future course of action. The allusion to this possible action by the co…
Archiving Qualitative Data in Australia
The prospect of the digital archiving of qualitative data for re‐use and analysis by other researchers is now a distinct reality in Australia following the development of similar facilities in the UK, the US and Finland. While these archives are now well‐established and have become reasonably well‐accepted among the scholarly community, their development has not been uncontroversial and has stimulated much debate about the desirability and feasib…
Qualitative Researchers' Understandings of Their Practice and the Implications for Data Archiving and Sharing
With the systematic archiving of qualitative data emerging as a distinct possibility in Australia, both the practices of qualitative research and how subsequent outputs are 'used' are coming under increased scrutiny and reflection. Drawing on a series of focus groups with qualitative researchers, this article critically explores the meanings ascribed to qualitative research practice and the perceived challenges posed by contemporary innovations i…
Managing medical advice seeking in calls to Child Health Line
Child Health Line is a 24-hour Australian helpline that offers information and support for parents and families on child development and parenting. The helpline guidelines suggest that nurses should not offer medical advice; they do, however, regularly receive calls seeking such advice. This paper examines how the service guidelines are talked into being through the nurses' management of callers' requests for medical advice and information, and s…
Transnational Family Reunions as Lived Experience
This article explores the complex processes and emotions that characterise transnational family reunion. Using the tools of experimental ethnography, it unpacks the experiences of Marcela, a young Australian-Salvadoran, who embarked on a family reunion with members of her transnationally dispersed family in various locales: London (Ontario), Los Angeles, various towns in El Salvador, and Managua in Nicaragua. Her account of the family reunion aff…
Investigating the therapeutic benefits of companion animals
To investigate the health benefits of companion animals in a way that goes beyond finding statistical patterns involves appreciating the philosophical debates about the nature of animal consciousness that engage an inter-disciplinary field of scholarship cutting across the Great Divide of the hard sciences and humanities. It also requires developing a methodology to conduct empirical research which is often viewed as of secondary importance by re…
They Are All 'Doing Gender' but are They are All Passing? a Case Study of the Appropriation of a Sociological Concept
The concept of 'doing gender' was placed on the sociological agenda by West and Zimmerman. In their seminal paper published in 1987, they provided a systematic theory of gender as a routine and ongoing process and outlined a distinctly ethnomethodological approach to investigating how gender is enacted, understood and rendered accountable. West and Zimmerman's notion of 'doing gender' has subsequently become a central concept in many fields of so…
Social Class and Cultural Mobility
This article explores the idea of 'cultural mobility' both as a way of thinking about the polarizing logic of class relations and practices in contemporary society and as a means by which the debate over the cultural omnivore might be advanced. The concept of cultural mobility refers to the differential capacity to engage with or consume cultural goods and services across the entire spectrum of cultural life, an ability which is itself premised u…
From aesthetic principles to collective sentiments
Researching the visual
Researching the Visual provides a comprehensive introduction to the entire field of 'visual research', exploring a range of approaches to visual inquiry that have previously been considered in isolation. The contributions of traditions as diverse as semiotics, ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism and material culture studies are reviewed and their potential application for the visual researcher are demonstrated."--Jacket
Consumerism, disorientation and postmodern space
There has recently been an explosion of theoretical literature on social space. A central claim in this literature is that postmodern spaces are experienced as confusing or disorienting by human subjects. This claim remains untested. The paper reports results from a small‐scale survey conducted in one form of postmodern space – the shopping mall. It suggests that unsupported assertions about the disorienting effects of postmodern space and their …
Transformations of taste
Researchers within the field of cultural imperialism as well as the more recently developed globalisation paradigm have tended to dwell upon the economic or corporate dimensions of global cultural flows and have been largely indifferent to the domain of the everyday cultural tastes and forms of cultural consumption that exist in particular national contexts. This article seeks to redress this focus through an examination of one particular instanc…
The Sooty Show Laid Bear
This article seeks to examine the complex nature of pretence as portrayed in a popular UK children's television puppet show. Central to the various theoretical concerns with make-believe - philosophical, psychological and lucid - has been the phenomenological axis of the `real-imaginary'. Because of the serial types of transformations undertaken by characters in the programme and the reliance placed on natural models of conversation, the problema…
What's that you said Sooty? Puppets, parlance and pretence
Make-Believe Play among Huli Children
A Huli aphorism says, Real don't make children's talk, or the games agoba kiruba [which hand is it in?] or mbola tola [exploding mud balls]. In much the same way that Huli men don't like children, in anthropology a view has prevailed that real anthropologists don't study children's (Norbeck 1974; Schwartzman 1976; New 1994). Children's voices have by and large received only perfunctory consideration in ethnographies and the profile of child as a …
Youth Theatre and the Articulation of Cultural Capital
This study of working-class and middle-class youth theatre workshops examines the processes through which this cultural form is appropriated by different class groups. Whereas the middle-class workshop proceeded efficiently and harmoniously, the working-class group resisted a number of institutional constraints traditionally associated with play rehearsal and performance. The processes of such symbolic struggle in the working-class group appeared…
Social Class and Social Identity
The continuing persistence of strong class identification is one of the findings highlighted by Marshall, Rose, Vogler and Newby in their recent (1988) enquiry into class processes in Britain. In this comment we examine critically the methodological techniques deployed by them in the elicitation of this information. We argue that the finding is questionable and the conclusions drawn from it are unwarranted. Data from our own survey of class proce…
Victors and vanquished
Social Class and Cultural Mobility
This article explores the idea of 'cultural mobility' both as a way of thinking about the polarizing logic of class relations and practices in contemporary society and as a means by which the debate over the cultural omnivore might be advanced. The concept of cultural mobility refers to the differential capacity to engage with or consume cultural goods and services across the entire spectrum of cultural life, an ability which is itself premised u…
Advice-implicative Interrogatives
Interactional research on advice giving has described advice as normative and asymmetric. In this paper we examine how these dimensions of advice are softened by counselors on a helpline for children and young people through the use of questions. Through what we term “advice-implicative interrogatives,” counselors ask clients about the relevance or applicability of a possible future course of action. The allusion to this possible action by the co…
Qualitative Researchers' Understandings of Their Practice and the Implications for Data Archiving and Sharing
With the systematic archiving of qualitative data emerging as a distinct possibility in Australia, both the practices of qualitative research and how subsequent outputs are 'used' are coming under increased scrutiny and reflection. Drawing on a series of focus groups with qualitative researchers, this article critically explores the meanings ascribed to qualitative research practice and the perceived challenges posed by contemporary innovations i…
Social Class and Social Identity
The continuing persistence of strong class identification is one of the findings highlighted by Marshall, Rose, Vogler and Newby in their recent (1988) enquiry into class processes in Britain. In this comment we examine critically the methodological techniques deployed by them in the elicitation of this information. We argue that the finding is questionable and the conclusions drawn from it are unwarranted. Data from our own survey of class proce…
From aesthetic principles to collective sentiments
Address Terms in Turn Beginnings
This article examines use of address terms by counselors on a telephone counseling service for children and young people. Drawing on conversation analytic findings and methods, we show how personal names are used in the management of structural and interpersonal aspects of counseling interaction. Focusing on address terms in turn beginnings—where a name is used as, or as part of, a preface—the analysis shows that address terms are used in turns t…
Managing medical advice seeking in calls to Child Health Line
Child Health Line is a 24-hour Australian helpline that offers information and support for parents and families on child development and parenting. The helpline guidelines suggest that nurses should not offer medical advice; they do, however, regularly receive calls seeking such advice. This paper examines how the service guidelines are talked into being through the nurses' management of callers' requests for medical advice and information, and s…
Consumerism, disorientation and postmodern space
There has recently been an explosion of theoretical literature on social space. A central claim in this literature is that postmodern spaces are experienced as confusing or disorienting by human subjects. This claim remains untested. The paper reports results from a small‐scale survey conducted in one form of postmodern space – the shopping mall. It suggests that unsupported assertions about the disorienting effects of postmodern space and their …
They Are All 'Doing Gender' but are They are All Passing? a Case Study of the Appropriation of a Sociological Concept
The concept of 'doing gender' was placed on the sociological agenda by West and Zimmerman. In their seminal paper published in 1987, they provided a systematic theory of gender as a routine and ongoing process and outlined a distinctly ethnomethodological approach to investigating how gender is enacted, understood and rendered accountable. West and Zimmerman's notion of 'doing gender' has subsequently become a central concept in many fields of so…
Basically it's the Usual Whole Teen Girl Thing
This article explores the practices of membership categorization in the interactions of clients and counselors on a national Australian helpline (Kids Helpline [KHL]) for children and young persons. Our focus is on membership categories drawn from three membership category devices (MCDs): stage-of-life (SOL), age, and family. Analysis draws on data across different contact modalities-email and web-counseling sessions-to examine how category-gener…
Victors and vanquished
Script proposals
Much of the research on the delivery of advice by professionals such as physicians, health workers and counsellors, both on the telephone and in face-to-face interaction more generally, has focused on the theme of client resistance and the consequent need for professionals to adopt particular formats to assist in the uptake of the advice. In this article we consider one setting, Kid’s Helpline, the national Australian counselling service for chil…
Investigating the therapeutic benefits of companion animals
To investigate the health benefits of companion animals in a way that goes beyond finding statistical patterns involves appreciating the philosophical debates about the nature of animal consciousness that engage an inter-disciplinary field of scholarship cutting across the Great Divide of the hard sciences and humanities. It also requires developing a methodology to conduct empirical research which is often viewed as of secondary importance by re…
Archiving Qualitative Data in Australia
The prospect of the digital archiving of qualitative data for re‐use and analysis by other researchers is now a distinct reality in Australia following the development of similar facilities in the UK, the US and Finland. While these archives are now well‐established and have become reasonably well‐accepted among the scholarly community, their development has not been uncontroversial and has stimulated much debate about the desirability and feasib…
Youth Theatre and the Articulation of Cultural Capital
This study of working-class and middle-class youth theatre workshops examines the processes through which this cultural form is appropriated by different class groups. Whereas the middle-class workshop proceeded efficiently and harmoniously, the working-class group resisted a number of institutional constraints traditionally associated with play rehearsal and performance. The processes of such symbolic struggle in the working-class group appeared…
Pranking in Children's Helpline Calls
Pranking can be understood as challenging a normative social order. One environment where pranking occurs is in institutional interaction. The present study examines a sample of pranking calls to telephone helplines for children and young people. Some cases had been posted on YouTube by the person doing the pranking; others were from a sub-collection of possible pranks, extracted from a larger corpus of Australian children's counselling helpline …
What's that you said Sooty? Puppets, parlance and pretence
Make-Believe Play among Huli Children
A Huli aphorism says, Real don't make children's talk, or the games agoba kiruba [which hand is it in?] or mbola tola [exploding mud balls]. In much the same way that Huli men don't like children, in anthropology a view has prevailed that real anthropologists don't study children's (Norbeck 1974; Schwartzman 1976; New 1994). Children's voices have by and large received only perfunctory consideration in ethnographies and the profile of child as a …
Social Contacts Amongst Suburban Housewives
Popular or media portrayals have suggested that many suburban housewives are dissatisfied with a number of aspects of their lives. This claim was investigated by surveying two groups of Brisbane women. Data obtained firstly from a sample at a shopping town and secondly from the members of a women's social club suggests that the dissatisfaction with the role of housewife expressed in the media may be overstated. Women find a lack of social contact…
Social Contacts Amongst Suburban Housewives
Popular or media portrayals have suggested that many suburban housewives are dissatisfied with a number of aspects of their lives. This claim was investigated by surveying two groups of Brisbane women. Data obtained firstly from a sample at a shopping town and secondly from the members of a women's social club suggests that the dissatisfaction with the role of housewife expressed in the media may be overstated. Women find a lack of social contact…
Class Images of 'the Economy
The nature of working class or subordinate consciousness and its relation to the dominant value system has been a central component of the research into actors' 'images of society'. This paper offers an empirical contribution to this topic via an examination of the conceptions of the economic system held by samples of Australian managers and shop stewards. Previous research has suggested that the consciousness of members of subordinate groups is …
Victors and vanquished
Social Class and Social Identity
The continuing persistence of strong class identification is one of the findings highlighted by Marshall, Rose, Vogler and Newby in their recent (1988) enquiry into class processes in Britain. In this comment we examine critically the methodological techniques deployed by them in the elicitation of this information. We argue that the finding is questionable and the conclusions drawn from it are unwarranted. Data from our own survey of class proce…
Youth Theatre and the Articulation of Cultural Capital
This study of working-class and middle-class youth theatre workshops examines the processes through which this cultural form is appropriated by different class groups. Whereas the middle-class workshop proceeded efficiently and harmoniously, the working-class group resisted a number of institutional constraints traditionally associated with play rehearsal and performance. The processes of such symbolic struggle in the working-class group appeared…
Make-Believe Play among Huli Children
A Huli aphorism says, Real don't make children's talk, or the games agoba kiruba [which hand is it in?] or mbola tola [exploding mud balls]. In much the same way that Huli men don't like children, in anthropology a view has prevailed that real anthropologists don't study children's (Norbeck 1974; Schwartzman 1976; New 1994). Children's voices have by and large received only perfunctory consideration in ethnographies and the profile of child as a …
What's that you said Sooty? Puppets, parlance and pretence
Transformations of taste
Researchers within the field of cultural imperialism as well as the more recently developed globalisation paradigm have tended to dwell upon the economic or corporate dimensions of global cultural flows and have been largely indifferent to the domain of the everyday cultural tastes and forms of cultural consumption that exist in particular national contexts. This article seeks to redress this focus through an examination of one particular instanc…
The Sooty Show Laid Bear
This article seeks to examine the complex nature of pretence as portrayed in a popular UK children's television puppet show. Central to the various theoretical concerns with make-believe - philosophical, psychological and lucid - has been the phenomenological axis of the `real-imaginary'. Because of the serial types of transformations undertaken by characters in the programme and the reliance placed on natural models of conversation, the problema…
Researching the visual
Researching the Visual provides a comprehensive introduction to the entire field of 'visual research', exploring a range of approaches to visual inquiry that have previously been considered in isolation. The contributions of traditions as diverse as semiotics, ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism and material culture studies are reviewed and their potential application for the visual researcher are demonstrated."--Jacket
Consumerism, disorientation and postmodern space
There has recently been an explosion of theoretical literature on social space. A central claim in this literature is that postmodern spaces are experienced as confusing or disorienting by human subjects. This claim remains untested. The paper reports results from a small‐scale survey conducted in one form of postmodern space – the shopping mall. It suggests that unsupported assertions about the disorienting effects of postmodern space and their …
From aesthetic principles to collective sentiments
Social Class and Cultural Mobility
This article explores the idea of 'cultural mobility' both as a way of thinking about the polarizing logic of class relations and practices in contemporary society and as a means by which the debate over the cultural omnivore might be advanced. The concept of cultural mobility refers to the differential capacity to engage with or consume cultural goods and services across the entire spectrum of cultural life, an ability which is itself premised u…
Transnational Family Reunions as Lived Experience
This article explores the complex processes and emotions that characterise transnational family reunion. Using the tools of experimental ethnography, it unpacks the experiences of Marcela, a young Australian-Salvadoran, who embarked on a family reunion with members of her transnationally dispersed family in various locales: London (Ontario), Los Angeles, various towns in El Salvador, and Managua in Nicaragua. Her account of the family reunion aff…
Investigating the therapeutic benefits of companion animals
To investigate the health benefits of companion animals in a way that goes beyond finding statistical patterns involves appreciating the philosophical debates about the nature of animal consciousness that engage an inter-disciplinary field of scholarship cutting across the Great Divide of the hard sciences and humanities. It also requires developing a methodology to conduct empirical research which is often viewed as of secondary importance by re…
They Are All 'Doing Gender' but are They are All Passing? a Case Study of the Appropriation of a Sociological Concept
The concept of 'doing gender' was placed on the sociological agenda by West and Zimmerman. In their seminal paper published in 1987, they provided a systematic theory of gender as a routine and ongoing process and outlined a distinctly ethnomethodological approach to investigating how gender is enacted, understood and rendered accountable. West and Zimmerman's notion of 'doing gender' has subsequently become a central concept in many fields of so…
Archiving Qualitative Data in Australia
The prospect of the digital archiving of qualitative data for re‐use and analysis by other researchers is now a distinct reality in Australia following the development of similar facilities in the UK, the US and Finland. While these archives are now well‐established and have become reasonably well‐accepted among the scholarly community, their development has not been uncontroversial and has stimulated much debate about the desirability and feasib…
Qualitative Researchers' Understandings of Their Practice and the Implications for Data Archiving and Sharing
With the systematic archiving of qualitative data emerging as a distinct possibility in Australia, both the practices of qualitative research and how subsequent outputs are 'used' are coming under increased scrutiny and reflection. Drawing on a series of focus groups with qualitative researchers, this article critically explores the meanings ascribed to qualitative research practice and the perceived challenges posed by contemporary innovations i…
Managing medical advice seeking in calls to Child Health Line
Child Health Line is a 24-hour Australian helpline that offers information and support for parents and families on child development and parenting. The helpline guidelines suggest that nurses should not offer medical advice; they do, however, regularly receive calls seeking such advice. This paper examines how the service guidelines are talked into being through the nurses' management of callers' requests for medical advice and information, and s…
Advice-implicative Interrogatives
Interactional research on advice giving has described advice as normative and asymmetric. In this paper we examine how these dimensions of advice are softened by counselors on a helpline for children and young people through the use of questions. Through what we term “advice-implicative interrogatives,” counselors ask clients about the relevance or applicability of a possible future course of action. The allusion to this possible action by the co…
Have You Talked with a Teacher Yet?’
When seeking help and support about being bullied, children and young people weigh up the benefits and risks of talking to their friends, parents, teachers and counsellors about their experiences. The focus of this article is calls to an Australian helpline for children and young people where the strategy of ‘talking to the teacher’ is discussed by callers and counsellors as a possible way of dealing with the caller’s bullying situation at school…
Address Terms in Turn Beginnings
This article examines use of address terms by counselors on a telephone counseling service for children and young people. Drawing on conversation analytic findings and methods, we show how personal names are used in the management of structural and interpersonal aspects of counseling interaction. Focusing on address terms in turn beginnings—where a name is used as, or as part of, a preface—the analysis shows that address terms are used in turns t…
Script proposals
Much of the research on the delivery of advice by professionals such as physicians, health workers and counsellors, both on the telephone and in face-to-face interaction more generally, has focused on the theme of client resistance and the consequent need for professionals to adopt particular formats to assist in the uptake of the advice. In this article we consider one setting, Kid’s Helpline, the national Australian counselling service for chil…
Extending client-centered support
The availability and use of online counseling approaches has increased rapidly over the last decade. While research has suggested a range of potential affordances and limitations of online counseling modalities, very few studies have offered detailed examinations of how counselors and clients manage asynchronous email counseling exchanges. In this paper we examine email exchanges involving clients and counselors through Kids Helpline, a national …
Pranking in Children's Helpline Calls
Pranking can be understood as challenging a normative social order. One environment where pranking occurs is in institutional interaction. The present study examines a sample of pranking calls to telephone helplines for children and young people. Some cases had been posted on YouTube by the person doing the pranking; others were from a sub-collection of possible pranks, extracted from a larger corpus of Australian children's counselling helpline …
Sociology (21 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Political science (14 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Conversation (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Social science (7 works)