Marjorie Harness Goodwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 99998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marjorie Harness Goodwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marjorie Harness |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodwin |
| SIGNATURE | GOODWIN M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2994-7674 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 901 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 18 |
Exclusion and inclusion in peer groups
We consider practices of exclusion and ridicule in peer groups in two distinct cultural contexts and with participants with distinct sensory access to the world. First, we consider exclusionary acts in a multiethnic girls’ peer group spanning fourth- to sixth-graders in a progressive Southern California school in the United States. We then consider interactions in a peer group consisting of deaf and hearing peers in a fourth-grade classroom in Iq…
A call for ethnographic investigation of justice and care in language and gender research
This paper argues for an ethnographic approach to the study of principles of justice and care in language and gender research. My focus is on language practices in two basic human socialites: children’s peer groups and the family. By examining interactions in the everyday lives of peers and in families, the creativity with which humans orchestrate their everyday activities becomes visible. I problematise two prominent ideas put forward by psychol…
Being a Couple in Life and Work
Being a Couple in Life and Work
International audience
Touch and Social Interaction
Our understanding of touch as a basic and complex sense is informed by phenomenological perspectives on our corporeal "being-in-the-world" and the notion of intercorporeality ( Merleau-Ponty 1964 ) as well as by sociological perspectives on social life as organized and accomplished through corporeal participation and the interaction order ( Goffman 1983 ). Intercorporeality involves sense-making of oneself and copresent others as body subjects, a…
The face of noncompliance in family interaction
This article examines the co-construction of dispute in parent-child remedial interchanges, where preference for provocation rather than agreement exists. Employing methodologies of video ethnography, linguistic anthropology, and conversation analysis, we examine practices for dispute management in middle class Los Angeles families (1540 h of video across 32 US families were collected and examined between 2002 and 2005) as well as in (sub)-workin…
Interaction rituals and ‘social distancing: New haptic trajectories and touching from a distance in the time of Covid-19
Previous research in the social sciences has shown that haptic interaction rituals are critical for maintaining social relationships. However, during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, ‘social distancing’ was encouraged in order to avoid the spread of disease. Drawing on data from self-ethnography as well as publicly available resources, in this study we explore some new, locally negotiated haptic trajectories to accomplish interaction rituals …
Embodied Family Choreography: Practices of Control, Care, and Mundane Creativity
Embodied Family Choreography documents the lived and embodied practices employed to establish, maintain, and negotiate intimate social relationships in the family, examining forms of control, care, and creativity. Making use of the extensive video archives of family interaction in the US and Sweden, it presents the first investigation of how touch and interaction between bodies, in conjunction with talk, constitute a primary means of orchestratin…
Language Socialization in Children’s Peer and Sibling-Kin Group Interactions
Language Socialization in Children’s Peer and Sibling-Kin Group Interactions
Haptic Sociality: Emerging Socialities in Interaction
This chapter extends the sequential analysis of human action to encompass intimate co-operative action, accomplished through the haptic, temporally unfolding intertwining of multiple bodies. The focus is on the construction through public social practice of tactile intercorporeality. Within a basic social institution, the family, members make use of culturally appropriate tactile communication (including the hug, the kiss, and other intertwinings…
Sibling sociality
This paper examines the embodied language practices through which siblings in two middle-class Los Angeles families structure their participation while apprenticing younger siblings into routine household chores, self-care and during care-taking activities. Siblings make use of a range of directive forms (including requests as well as imperatives) and participant frameworks drawn from their family, peer group and school cultures. Families build a…
Concurrent operations on talk: Notes on the interactive organization of assessments
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Emotion as Stance
This chapter argues that emotion is organized as interactive practice, rather than as the expression of experience that has its primary locus in the private life of the individual. Analytically this means that the displays of emotion performed by an individual must be analyzed in reference to not only her own body but also the bodies of those with whom she is organizing action. Emotions constitute ways of taking up highly consequential affective …
Calibration in directive/response sequences in family interaction
Car talk: Integrating texts, bodies, and changing landscapes
Making use of videotaped recordings of interaction in cars filmed as middle class families pursue their daily activities, we examine some of the ways in which talk while driving includes as parts of its intrinsic organization ongoing attention to phenomena beyond the stream of speech. Important consideration is given to issues posed by the task of driving while talking about a seeable field in either the unfolding landscape or a textual artifact …
Whatever (Neck Roll, Eye Roll, Teeth Suck): The Situated Coproduction of Social Categories and Identities through Stancetaking and Transmodal Stylization
This article examines the argumentative talk of a preadolescent girls' peer group demonstrating both the co-construction of microinteractional identities as well as the coproduction of macro-social identity categories, such as race, class, and gender. Activities of social aggression are performed through embodied styling and stancetaking in the midst of oppositional moves towards a "tagalong" girl. Through transmodal stylization girls openly mock…
Occasioned knowledge exploration in family interaction
This article examines the ensemble of conversational practices a particular family makes use of to cultivate active and joyful engagement in imaginative inquiry about the world, during mundane, largely unstructured activity. Parents provide opportunities for children to query new words, idioms, and concepts, and invite them to do so, though they do not impose explanations on children. Explanations are ‘recipient-designed’ in terms of age appropri…
Participation and Embodied Action in Preadolescent Girls' Assessment Activity
Assessments provide a principal way in which girls in their peer group make sense out of experience. The grammar of an emerging assessment utterance provides for local social organization, as participants take up stances with respect to the target. In this article, I examine participation during assessments in the midst of a gossip session in which 11-year-old American girls evaluate the captain of a softball game and his girlfriend who have excl…
Children Socializing Children: Practices for Negotiating the Social Order Among Peers
The Hidden Life of Girls: Games of Stance, Status, and Exclusion
Participation, affect, and trajectory in family directive/response sequences
Making use of videotapes of family interaction, this paper investigates alternative trajectories that develop as parents and children negotiate disputes resulting from directive/response sequences. Forms of arguments constituted through recycled positions are distinguished from arguments that are buttressed by accounts or rule statements. Constellations of features including structures of control, forms of tying utterances to prior utterances, ac…
Talk and practical epistemology - Jack Sidnell
Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity
Literacy and Literacies is an engaging account of literacy and its relation to power. The book develops a synthesis of literacy studies, moving beyond received categories, and exploring the domain of power through questions of colonialism, modern state formation, educational systems and official versus popular literacies. Collins and Blot offer in-depth critical discussion of particular cases and discuss the role of literacies in the formation of…
Exclusion in Girls' Peer Groups: Ethnographic Analysis of Language Practices on the Playground
Many of our models of female behavior are the legacy of a ‘two cultures’ perspective on moral development and have investigated children''s reasoning about moral situations rather than moral action itself. By examining the practices that make up the life world of a particular social group we can investigate how morality is lodged within the actions and stances that children take up in interaction with their peers. Forms of social exclusion in gir…
Concurrent operations on talk: Notes on the interactive organization of assessments
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Calibration in directive/response sequences in family interaction
He-Said-She-Said: Formal Cultural Procedures for the Construction of a Gossip Dispute Activity
Formal cultural procedures utilized by urban black female children to construct a type of gossip dispute they call "he-said-she-said" are analyzed. The procedures employed to construct opening accusations produce utterances with a characteristic syntactic structure as well as a field of activity constituted through particular types of events, actions, and identities for the participants and rules for sequencing these phenomena through time. These…
Aggravated correction and disagreement in children's conversations
Prosody in Conversation: Interactional Studies
The essays in this volume are all original contributions dealing in one way or another with the analysis of prosody - primarily intonation and rhythm - and the role it plays in everyday conversation. They take as their methodological starting point the contention that the study of prosody must begin with genuine interactional rather than pre fabricated laboratory data. Through close empirical analysis of recorded material from genuine English, Ge…
Whatever (Neck Roll, Eye Roll, Teeth Suck): The Situated Coproduction of Social Categories and Identities through Stancetaking and Transmodal Stylization
This article examines the argumentative talk of a preadolescent girls' peer group demonstrating both the co-construction of microinteractional identities as well as the coproduction of macro-social identity categories, such as race, class, and gender. Activities of social aggression are performed through embodied styling and stancetaking in the midst of oppositional moves towards a "tagalong" girl. Through transmodal stylization girls openly mock…
Multi-modality in girls' game disputes
Instigating: Storytelling as Social Process
This paper investigates a particular form of storytelling, instigating, that occurs within a gossip-dispute activity called "he-said-she-said." Through the storytelling a party is informed about another person's having committed the offense of talking about her behind her back. The larger framework of the dispute provides organization for the storytelling process in several ways: (1) it provides structure for the cited characters and their activi…
Tactical uses of stories: Participation frameworks within girls' and boys' disputes
This paper investigates how children use stories as tools for arranging and rearranging social organization. I examine how boys and girls, in their same-sex groups, use features of stories to accomplish and restructure social identities within encounters. Though girls and boys make use of similar resources, they construct quite different types of events. Boys use stories to continue an ongoing argument while reshaping the domain of dispute. Girls…
Children Socializing Children: Practices for Negotiating the Social Order Among Peers
Building power asymmetries in girls' interaction
This study, based on three years of ethnographic research (and over 60 hours of videotaped interaction) in a Southern California elementary school, investigates how enduring asymmetrical relationships among females in a multicultural peer group are built in moment-to-moment interaction. By exploring how relations of power, based on forms of opposition, bullying, and exclusion, are both built interactively and commented upon in female groups, I ca…
Gesture and coparticipation in the activity of searching for a word
Processes of Dispute Management Among Urban Black Children
This paper investigates the forms and functions of alternative dispute procedures as well as distinctive operating cultures that account for them among urban black working-class children. It is found that children strategically manage the social organization of a dispute through the selection of particular argument formats. In conducting argumentative exchanges, children display a range of communicative competencies and collaborate in performing …
Occasioned knowledge exploration in family interaction
This article examines the ensemble of conversational practices a particular family makes use of to cultivate active and joyful engagement in imaginative inquiry about the world, during mundane, largely unstructured activity. Parents provide opportunities for children to query new words, idioms, and concepts, and invite them to do so, though they do not impose explanations on children. Explanations are ‘recipient-designed’ in terms of age appropri…
Co-Construction in Girls' Hopscotch
(1995). Co-Construction in Girls' Hopscotch. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 261-281
Organizing Participation in Cross-Sex Jump Rope: Situating Gender Differences Within Longitudinal Studies of Activities
This study investigates how children use directives and forms of exclusion to organize play activity. Elementary school children of mixed ethnicity were observed playing the game of jump rope over the span of 1 month. Girls' dominance in the game was observed to change over time. In mixed-sex groups where boys were learning how to jump, girls frequently set the agenda regarding how the game was to be played. However, as boys gained proficiency in…
Participation
Participation and Embodied Action in Preadolescent Girls' Assessment Activity
Assessments provide a principal way in which girls in their peer group make sense out of experience. The grammar of an emerging assessment utterance provides for local social organization, as participants take up stances with respect to the target. In this article, I examine participation during assessments in the midst of a gossip session in which 11-year-old American girls evaluate the captain of a softball game and his girlfriend who have excl…
The Serious Side of Jump Rope: Conversational Practices and Social Organization in the Frame of Play
Marjorie Harness Goodwin, The Serious Side of Jump Rope: Conversational Practices and Social Organization in the Frame of Play, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 98, No. 389 (Jul. - Sep., 1985), pp. 315-330
La coopération au travail dans un aéroport
Through an observation of the ways in which various categories of airport employees watch the aeroplanes, the authors analyse the processes in which ordinary and routine activities are inscribed. This forms the basis of their integrated research project on language, culture, social organization and an historically constituted material world. The situations, objects and working environment then acquire their definition in a dynamic of co-determina…
Interaction rituals and ‘social distancing: New haptic trajectories and touching from a distance in the time of Covid-19
Previous research in the social sciences has shown that haptic interaction rituals are critical for maintaining social relationships. However, during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, ‘social distancing’ was encouraged in order to avoid the spread of disease. Drawing on data from self-ethnography as well as publicly available resources, in this study we explore some new, locally negotiated haptic trajectories to accomplish interaction rituals …
Car talk: Integrating texts, bodies, and changing landscapes
Making use of videotaped recordings of interaction in cars filmed as middle class families pursue their daily activities, we examine some of the ways in which talk while driving includes as parts of its intrinsic organization ongoing attention to phenomena beyond the stream of speech. Important consideration is given to issues posed by the task of driving while talking about a seeable field in either the unfolding landscape or a textual artifact …
Touch and Social Interaction
Our understanding of touch as a basic and complex sense is informed by phenomenological perspectives on our corporeal "being-in-the-world" and the notion of intercorporeality ( Merleau-Ponty 1964 ) as well as by sociological perspectives on social life as organized and accomplished through corporeal participation and the interaction order ( Goffman 1983 ). Intercorporeality involves sense-making of oneself and copresent others as body subjects, a…
Retellings, pretellings and hypothetical stories
1990). Retellings, pretellings and hypothetical stories. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 24, No. 1-4, pp. 263-276
Monday Night Prayer Meeting with God and the Holy Ghost Crusader Prayer Band
He-Said-She-Said: Formal Cultural Procedures for the Construction of a Gossip Dispute Activity
Formal cultural procedures utilized by urban black female children to construct a type of gossip dispute they call "he-said-she-said" are analyzed. The procedures employed to construct opening accusations produce utterances with a characteristic syntactic structure as well as a field of activity constituted through particular types of events, actions, and identities for the participants and rules for sequencing these phenomena through time. These…
Processes of Dispute Management Among Urban Black Children
This paper investigates the forms and functions of alternative dispute procedures as well as distinctive operating cultures that account for them among urban black working-class children. It is found that children strategically manage the social organization of a dispute through the selection of particular argument formats. In conducting argumentative exchanges, children display a range of communicative competencies and collaborate in performing …
Instigating: Storytelling as Social Process
This paper investigates a particular form of storytelling, instigating, that occurs within a gossip-dispute activity called "he-said-she-said." Through the storytelling a party is informed about another person's having committed the offense of talking about her behind her back. The larger framework of the dispute provides organization for the storytelling process in several ways: (1) it provides structure for the cited characters and their activi…
Aggravated correction and disagreement in children's conversations
Black and White Styles in Conflict. THOMAS KOCHMAN
The Serious Side of Jump Rope: Conversational Practices and Social Organization in the Frame of Play
Marjorie Harness Goodwin, The Serious Side of Jump Rope: Conversational Practices and Social Organization in the Frame of Play, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 98, No. 389 (Jul. - Sep., 1985), pp. 315-330
Gesture and coparticipation in the activity of searching for a word
Children's arguing
Whereas a great deal of research in sociolinguistics has been directed toward the investigation of politeness as an organizing feature of conversation (and, in particular, of women's conversations), far less attention has been given to how people manage opposition, a type of talk that is generally evaluated negatively and viewed as disruptive. The present study will present an ethnographically based description of how girls and boys carry out the…
He-said-she-said: Talk as social organization among Black children
"This groundbreaking study describes in detail the complexities of children's communication. By integrating the analysis of conversation with ethnography, Marjorie Harness Goodwin systematically and empirically reveals how a group of urban black children constitute their social world through talk"--Back cover.
Retellings, pretellings and hypothetical stories
1990). Retellings, pretellings and hypothetical stories. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 24, No. 1-4, pp. 263-276
Tactical uses of stories: Participation frameworks within girls' and boys' disputes
This paper investigates how children use stories as tools for arranging and rearranging social organization. I examine how boys and girls, in their same-sex groups, use features of stories to accomplish and restructure social identities within encounters. Though girls and boys make use of similar resources, they construct quite different types of events. Boys use stories to continue an ongoing argument while reshaping the domain of dispute. Girls…
Context, Activity and Participation
Co-Construction in Girls' Hopscotch
(1995). Co-Construction in Girls' Hopscotch. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 261-281
Seeing as situated activity: Formulating planes
In order to focus as clearly as possible on some of the issues involved in the analysis of cognition in the workplace, this chapter will investigate a single, very simple, but very pervasive, activity performed by different kinds of workers in a medium-sized airport: looking at airplanes. Despite the brevity of individual glances, they are in no way haphazard. Workers look at planes in order to see something that will help them accomplish the wor…
Prosody in Conversation: Interactional Studies
The essays in this volume are all original contributions dealing in one way or another with the analysis of prosody - primarily intonation and rhythm - and the role it plays in everyday conversation. They take as their methodological starting point the contention that the study of prosody must begin with genuine interactional rather than pre fabricated laboratory data. Through close empirical analysis of recorded material from genuine English, Ge…
Byplay: Negotiation evaluation in storytelling
Toward Families of Stories in Context
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Toward Families of Stories in Context
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La coopération au travail dans un aéroport
Through an observation of the ways in which various categories of airport employees watch the aeroplanes, the authors analyse the processes in which ordinary and routine activities are inscribed. This forms the basis of their integrated research project on language, culture, social organization and an historically constituted material world. The situations, objects and working environment then acquire their definition in a dynamic of co-determina…
Games of Stance: Conflict and Footing in Hopscotch
Recent work in the social sciences has reified stereotypes of gender differences in children; girls are reputedly more interested in cooperative interaction and a morality based on principles of relatedness, relationships, care, equity, flexibility, and responsibility, whereas boys are concerned with dominance and an ethic based on principles of objectivity, individual rights, and rule-governed justice. For ex ample, psychologists Miller, Danaher…
Participation
Organizing Participation in Cross-Sex Jump Rope: Situating Gender Differences Within Longitudinal Studies of Activities
This study investigates how children use directives and forms of exclusion to organize play activity. Elementary school children of mixed ethnicity were observed playing the game of jump rope over the span of 1 month. Girls' dominance in the game was observed to change over time. In mixed-sex groups where boys were learning how to jump, girls frequently set the agenda regarding how the game was to be played. However, as boys gained proficiency in…
Exclusion in Girls' Peer Groups: Ethnographic Analysis of Language Practices on the Playground
Many of our models of female behavior are the legacy of a ‘two cultures’ perspective on moral development and have investigated children''s reasoning about moral situations rather than moral action itself. By examining the practices that make up the life world of a particular social group we can investigate how morality is lodged within the actions and stances that children take up in interaction with their peers. Forms of social exclusion in gir…
Building power asymmetries in girls' interaction
This study, based on three years of ethnographic research (and over 60 hours of videotaped interaction) in a Southern California elementary school, investigates how enduring asymmetrical relationships among females in a multicultural peer group are built in moment-to-moment interaction. By exploring how relations of power, based on forms of opposition, bullying, and exclusion, are both built interactively and commented upon in female groups, I ca…
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