Candace West
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Candace West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Candace |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3453 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Doing Gender, Doing Difference: Inequality, Power, and Institutional Change
For the first time the anthologized works of Sarah Fenstermaker and Candace West have been collected along with new essays to provide a complete understanding of this topic of tremendous importance to scholars in social science
Faire le genre
Cet article a pour ambition de proposer une nouvelle manière d’appréhender le genre, compris ici comme un accomplissement routinier, enchâssé dans les interactions de la vie courante. Avancer une telle conception du genre suppose une évaluation critique des perspectives actuelles sur le sexe et le genre, ainsi que l’introduction de distinctions importantes entre le sexe, la catégorie de sexe, et le genre. Selon nous, reconnaître que ces concepts …
Accounting for Doing Gender
W e're delighted to have Doing Gender and its sequelae as the subjects of this symposium. The serious readings of our work by Professors Connell, Jones, Kitzinger, Messerschmidt, Risman, Smith, and Vidal-Ortiz do us honor, and we welcome the chance to address them. We use our response to reflect on, clarify, admit, and expand on what we said originally and what we have said since. As important as the path taken, however, is the theoretical path a…
Peeling an onion: A critical comment on `Competing discourses
Accountability in action: The accomplishment of gender, race and class in a meeting of the University of California Board of Regents
In this article, we analyze the proceedings of a meeting that terminated affirmative action policies at the University of California. Employin our recent theoretical reformulation of difference as an accomplishment, we explore participants' means of doing gender, race and class in these deliberations. In discussing our findings, we call attention to their relevance for `formal' and critical discourse analysis
Social Accessibility and Involvement: Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
CANDACE WEST University of California, Santa Craz west@2cats. acsc.eda Rawls, Anne Warfield. 1996. Durkheim's Epistemology: The Neglected Argument. American Journal of Sociology 102: 430-82. Russell, Kathy, Midge Wilson, and Ronald Hall. 1992. The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans. New York: Doubleday. Scheff, Thomas. 1967. Toward a Sociological Model of Consensus. American Sociological Review 32: 32-46. Schneider,…
Genre, langage et conversation
Cet article passe en revue quelques-unes des questions auxquelles sont confrontés les chercheurs dans l'étude du rapport entre genre et conversation. Hommes et femmes parlent-ils différemment ? Comment le genre affecte-t-il la manière dont on parle aux hommes et aux femmes, et dont on parle des hommes et des femmes ? Quelle est la relation entre la structure d'une langue et son usage par l'un et l'autre sexes ? Il n'est pas possible de passer en …
Not Even a Day in the Life
Goffman in Feminist Perspective
In this paper, my aim is to call attention to Erving Goffman's contributions to feminist theory. I begin by reviewing his sociological agenda and assessments of that agenda by his critics. Next, I consider various substantive contributions of his work to our understanding of women's experiences in public places, spoken interaction between women and men, and sex and gender. I conclude with a discussion of the significance of Goffman's work for ana…
Ethnography and Orthography: A (Modest) Methodological Proposal
In this article, I make a methodological plea for the utility of transcribing in field research. I begin by noting that, despite much recent talk of the mutual relevance of ethnography and conversation analysis, transcribing has not been addressed as a topic in its own right. I consider the goals of transcribing from a conversation analytic perspective and compare these with the aims of producing field notes. Then, I explicate the process of tran…
Women's Competence in Conversation
In this paper, my aim is to review the logic involved in existing assessments of women's competence as conversationalists. My point of departure is the very definition of competence, which, as I demonstrate, has not been employed in many descriptions of women's deficits. Instead, conversational competence has been generally defined by default, in relation to how men speak and what men mean to say. By contrast, conversation analysis yields a syste…
Reply to Epstein
Doing Difference
In this article, we advance a new understanding of 'difference' as an ongoing interactional accomplishment. Calling on the authors' earlier reconceptualization of gender, they develop the further implications of this perspective for the relationships among gender, race, and class. The authors argue that, despite significant differences in their characteristics and outcomes, gender, race, and class are comparable as mechanisms for producing social…
Reconceptualizing gender in physician-patient relationships
Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of Gender
In this paper, we examine how surgeons who do cosmetic operations account for their activities and how people who elect such operations make sense of their decisions to do so. Our interviews with surgeons and former patients show that accounts of cosmetic surgery extend the definition of reconstructive procedures to include cosmetic ones. This definition is achieved simultaneously with the “accomplishment of gender,” allowing surgeons and patient…
Not Just `Doctors' Orders: Directive-Response Sequences in Patients' Visits to Women and Men Physicians
In this paper, I draw on Goodwin's (1980, 1988, in press) research on directive-response speech sequences to examine how physicians formulate their directives to patients and how patients respond to those directives. My analysis of encounters between patients and family physicians indicates that women and men physicians issue their directives in dramatically different ways, and that their alternative formulations have consequences for patients' r…
Gender and Power: Society, the Person, and Sexual Politics. R. W. Connell
Conversational Shift Work: A Study of Topical Transitions between Women and Men
In this paper, we employ recent work in conversation analysis to assess the allocation of “shift work”—the specific procedures speakers use to produce topical transitions—in talk between women and men. Our examination of exchanges between unacquainted persons shows that most topic transitions are the product of speakers' collaborative activities or a means of coping with topics that “die.” However, some are the outcome of seemingly unilateral top…
Doing Gender
The purpose of this article is to advance a new understanding of gender as a routine accomplishment embedded in everyday interaction. To do so entails a critical assessment of existing perspectives on sex and gender and the introduction of important distinctions among sex, sex category, and gender. We argue that recognition of the analytical independence of these concepts is essential for understanding the interactional work involved in being a g…
The Discourse of Medicine: Dialectics of Medical Interviews
Talking with Doctors: Conversation Analysis in Action
Miscommunicating at the Family Practice Center
Routine Complications: Troubles with Talk between Doctors and Patients
Talk: An Analysis of Speech and Non-Verbal Behavior in Conversation
Nonverbal behavior: A functional perspective
Doing Gender
The purpose of this article is to advance a new understanding of gender as a routine accomplishment embedded in everyday interaction. To do so entails a critical assessment of existing perspectives on sex and gender and the introduction of important distinctions among sex, sex category, and gender. We argue that recognition of the analytical independence of these concepts is essential for understanding the interactional work involved in being a g…
Accounting for Doing Gender
W e're delighted to have Doing Gender and its sequelae as the subjects of this symposium. The serious readings of our work by Professors Connell, Jones, Kitzinger, Messerschmidt, Risman, Smith, and Vidal-Ortiz do us honor, and we welcome the chance to address them. We use our response to reflect on, clarify, admit, and expand on what we said originally and what we have said since. As important as the path taken, however, is the theoretical path a…
Doing Difference
In this article, we advance a new understanding of 'difference' as an ongoing interactional accomplishment. Calling on the authors' earlier reconceptualization of gender, they develop the further implications of this perspective for the relationships among gender, race, and class. The authors argue that, despite significant differences in their characteristics and outcomes, gender, race, and class are comparable as mechanisms for producing social…
Women's Place in Everyday Talk: Reflections on Parent-Child Interaction
In this paper, we compare the results of our previous study of interruptions in same-sex and cross-sex conversations (Zimmerman and West, 1975) with similar data from parent-child verbal interaction and find that there are striking similarities between the pattern of interruptions in male-female interchanges and those observed in the adult-child transactions. We use the occasion of this comparison to consider several possible interactional conseq…
Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of Gender
In this paper, we examine how surgeons who do cosmetic operations account for their activities and how people who elect such operations make sense of their decisions to do so. Our interviews with surgeons and former patients show that accounts of cosmetic surgery extend the definition of reconstructive procedures to include cosmetic ones. This definition is achieved simultaneously with the “accomplishment of gender,” allowing surgeons and patient…
When the Doctor Is a 'Lady: Power, Status and Gender in Physician-patient Encounters
An extensive body of research indicates that men interrupt women much more often than the reverse, across a variety of situations. Some conclude that men's interruptions of women in cross-sex conversations constitute an exercise of power and dominance over their conversational partners. To be sure, power is an important facet of many other social relationships, such as those between whites and Blacks, bosses and employees, and-of immediate intere…
Accountability in action: The accomplishment of gender, race and class in a meeting of the University of California Board of Regents
In this article, we analyze the proceedings of a meeting that terminated affirmative action policies at the University of California. Employin our recent theoretical reformulation of difference as an accomplishment, we explore participants' means of doing gender, race and class in these deliberations. In discussing our findings, we call attention to their relevance for `formal' and critical discourse analysis
Not Just `Doctors' Orders: Directive-Response Sequences in Patients' Visits to Women and Men Physicians
In this paper, I draw on Goodwin's (1980, 1988, in press) research on directive-response speech sequences to examine how physicians formulate their directives to patients and how patients respond to those directives. My analysis of encounters between patients and family physicians indicates that women and men physicians issue their directives in dramatically different ways, and that their alternative formulations have consequences for patients' r…
Conversational Shift Work: A Study of Topical Transitions between Women and Men
In this paper, we employ recent work in conversation analysis to assess the allocation of “shift work”—the specific procedures speakers use to produce topical transitions—in talk between women and men. Our examination of exchanges between unacquainted persons shows that most topic transitions are the product of speakers' collaborative activities or a means of coping with topics that “die.” However, some are the outcome of seemingly unilateral top…
Women's Competence in Conversation
In this paper, my aim is to review the logic involved in existing assessments of women's competence as conversationalists. My point of departure is the very definition of competence, which, as I demonstrate, has not been employed in many descriptions of women's deficits. Instead, conversational competence has been generally defined by default, in relation to how men speak and what men mean to say. By contrast, conversation analysis yields a syste…
Reconceptualizing gender in physician-patient relationships
Goffman in Feminist Perspective
In this paper, my aim is to call attention to Erving Goffman's contributions to feminist theory. I begin by reviewing his sociological agenda and assessments of that agenda by his critics. Next, I consider various substantive contributions of his work to our understanding of women's experiences in public places, spoken interaction between women and men, and sex and gender. I conclude with a discussion of the significance of Goffman's work for ana…
Faire le genre
Cet article a pour ambition de proposer une nouvelle manière d’appréhender le genre, compris ici comme un accomplissement routinier, enchâssé dans les interactions de la vie courante. Avancer une telle conception du genre suppose une évaluation critique des perspectives actuelles sur le sexe et le genre, ainsi que l’introduction de distinctions importantes entre le sexe, la catégorie de sexe, et le genre. Selon nous, reconnaître que ces concepts …
Ethnography and Orthography: A (Modest) Methodological Proposal
In this article, I make a methodological plea for the utility of transcribing in field research. I begin by noting that, despite much recent talk of the mutual relevance of ethnography and conversation analysis, transcribing has not been addressed as a topic in its own right. I consider the goals of transcribing from a conversation analytic perspective and compare these with the aims of producing field notes. Then, I explicate the process of tran…
Medical misfires: Mishearings, misgivings, and misunderstandings in physician‐patient dialogues
(1984). Medical misfires: Mishearings, misgivings, and misunderstandings in physician‐patient dialogues. Discourse Processes: Vol. 7, Physicians and Patients in Social Interaction: Medical Encounters as a Discourse Process, pp. 107-134
Why Can't a Woman be More Like a Man: An Interactional Note on Organizational Game-Playing for Managerial Women
Recent literature suggests that women's success in 'a man's world' is partially contingent on learning the rules of men's 'games.' Here, it appears that game-playing in work organizations (like game-playing in everyday life) has its primary site in the arena of face-to-face interaction. Thus, aspiring women are advised to 'dress for success,' attend to the subtleties of 'power desking,' and, of special interest here, 'speak up' in order to be hea…
Peeling an onion: A critical comment on `Competing discourses
Not Even a Day in the Life
Reply to Epstein
Talking with Doctors: Conversation Analysis in Action
The Language of Oppression
Examines decadence in our language, especially that language which leads to dehumanization and degradation of human beings. Powerful illustrations may be found in the fact that, for instance, Hitler's Final Solution appeared reasonable once the Jews were successfully labelled by the Nazis as sub-humans, parasites, vermin, or bacilli. So, too, the subjugation of the American Indian was defensible since they were defined as barbarians and savages. …
Explorations in Classroom Observation
Women's Place in Everyday Talk: Reflections on Parent-Child Interaction
In this paper, we compare the results of our previous study of interruptions in same-sex and cross-sex conversations (Zimmerman and West, 1975) with similar data from parent-child verbal interaction and find that there are striking similarities between the pattern of interruptions in male-female interchanges and those observed in the adult-child transactions. We use the occasion of this comparison to consider several possible interactional conseq…
The Material World: Some Theories of Language and its Limits
Why Can't a Woman be More Like a Man: An Interactional Note on Organizational Game-Playing for Managerial Women
Recent literature suggests that women's success in 'a man's world' is partially contingent on learning the rules of men's 'games.' Here, it appears that game-playing in work organizations (like game-playing in everyday life) has its primary site in the arena of face-to-face interaction. Thus, aspiring women are advised to 'dress for success,' attend to the subtleties of 'power desking,' and, of special interest here, 'speak up' in order to be hea…
Language and Gender
Medical misfires: Mishearings, misgivings, and misunderstandings in physician‐patient dialogues
(1984). Medical misfires: Mishearings, misgivings, and misunderstandings in physician‐patient dialogues. Discourse Processes: Vol. 7, Physicians and Patients in Social Interaction: Medical Encounters as a Discourse Process, pp. 107-134
When the Doctor Is a 'Lady: Power, Status and Gender in Physician-patient Encounters
An extensive body of research indicates that men interrupt women much more often than the reverse, across a variety of situations. Some conclude that men's interruptions of women in cross-sex conversations constitute an exercise of power and dominance over their conversational partners. To be sure, power is an important facet of many other social relationships, such as those between whites and Blacks, bosses and employees, and-of immediate intere…
Talk: An Analysis of Speech and Non-Verbal Behavior in Conversation
Nonverbal behavior: A functional perspective
The Discourse of Medicine: Dialectics of Medical Interviews
Talking with Doctors: Conversation Analysis in Action
Miscommunicating at the Family Practice Center
Routine Complications: Troubles with Talk between Doctors and Patients
Doing Gender
The purpose of this article is to advance a new understanding of gender as a routine accomplishment embedded in everyday interaction. To do so entails a critical assessment of existing perspectives on sex and gender and the introduction of important distinctions among sex, sex category, and gender. We argue that recognition of the analytical independence of these concepts is essential for understanding the interactional work involved in being a g…
Conversational Shift Work: A Study of Topical Transitions between Women and Men
In this paper, we employ recent work in conversation analysis to assess the allocation of “shift work”—the specific procedures speakers use to produce topical transitions—in talk between women and men. Our examination of exchanges between unacquainted persons shows that most topic transitions are the product of speakers' collaborative activities or a means of coping with topics that “die.” However, some are the outcome of seemingly unilateral top…
Gender and Power: Society, the Person, and Sexual Politics. R. W. Connell
Not Just `Doctors' Orders: Directive-Response Sequences in Patients' Visits to Women and Men Physicians
In this paper, I draw on Goodwin's (1980, 1988, in press) research on directive-response speech sequences to examine how physicians formulate their directives to patients and how patients respond to those directives. My analysis of encounters between patients and family physicians indicates that women and men physicians issue their directives in dramatically different ways, and that their alternative formulations have consequences for patients' r…
Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of Gender
In this paper, we examine how surgeons who do cosmetic operations account for their activities and how people who elect such operations make sense of their decisions to do so. Our interviews with surgeons and former patients show that accounts of cosmetic surgery extend the definition of reconstructive procedures to include cosmetic ones. This definition is achieved simultaneously with the “accomplishment of gender,” allowing surgeons and patient…
Reconceptualizing gender in physician-patient relationships
Women's Competence in Conversation
In this paper, my aim is to review the logic involved in existing assessments of women's competence as conversationalists. My point of departure is the very definition of competence, which, as I demonstrate, has not been employed in many descriptions of women's deficits. Instead, conversational competence has been generally defined by default, in relation to how men speak and what men mean to say. By contrast, conversation analysis yields a syste…
Reply to Epstein
Doing Difference
In this article, we advance a new understanding of 'difference' as an ongoing interactional accomplishment. Calling on the authors' earlier reconceptualization of gender, they develop the further implications of this perspective for the relationships among gender, race, and class. The authors argue that, despite significant differences in their characteristics and outcomes, gender, race, and class are comparable as mechanisms for producing social…
Goffman in Feminist Perspective
In this paper, my aim is to call attention to Erving Goffman's contributions to feminist theory. I begin by reviewing his sociological agenda and assessments of that agenda by his critics. Next, I consider various substantive contributions of his work to our understanding of women's experiences in public places, spoken interaction between women and men, and sex and gender. I conclude with a discussion of the significance of Goffman's work for ana…
Ethnography and Orthography: A (Modest) Methodological Proposal
In this article, I make a methodological plea for the utility of transcribing in field research. I begin by noting that, despite much recent talk of the mutual relevance of ethnography and conversation analysis, transcribing has not been addressed as a topic in its own right. I consider the goals of transcribing from a conversation analytic perspective and compare these with the aims of producing field notes. Then, I explicate the process of tran…
Sociology (23 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works)