Talking Social Structure
Discourse, Domination and the Watergate Hearings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5249259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harvey Molotch, Harvey L Molotch, Deidre Boden |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 273 |
| Publication date | 1985-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2095539 |
| OpenAlex | W2332665422 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 87 |
| References cited | 10 |
While all conversation requires use of context to make communication meaningful, one interactant always has the potential of depriving another of this communicative resource. Power can thus be achieved by insisting that all accounts meet a formal test of literal, objective truth-a test that no account can pass. At stake in the success of such a maneuver is the capacity to control conversation and thereby determine substantive outcomes. Through analysis of Watergate Hearings videotapes, we show how such a power struggle is managed as a moment-to-moment, sequential unfolding of manipulations among interactants. The larger goal is to display the mechanisms through which social process and social structure cohere through interaction
Context (archaeology · Control (management · Conversation · Linguistics · Literal (mathematical logic · Moment (physics · Power (physics · Process (computing · Resource (disambiguation · Sociology · Test (biology · Artificial Intelligence · Communication · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology
Participation Shifts
Power and Interaction
Mikroanalyse in der Politikwissenschaft
Conversation and Cognition
Bar Wars
Discursive psychology, mental states and descriptions
Social Citizenship and Workfare in the United States and Western Europe
Myth and ceremony in workfare
Ethnomethodology
Arrest Matters
Withholding consent
The rules of engagement
Categories Are for Talking
Negotiating expert status
The Branch Davidians and the Politics of Power and Intimidation
Symbolic Interactionism as a Methodological Framework
Interaction and Asymmetry in Clinical Discourse
The Production of Punctuality
Public opinion paradigms
A Social Cognitive Conception of Social Structure
Sequential and Institutional Contexts in Calls for Help
Interpreting Questions and Replies
Taking Turns and Taking Sides
El nuevo movimiento teórico
Enabling talk
Undemocratic Discourse
Communicating at the edge
Understanding the production of ‘strategy’ and ‘organization’ through talk amongst managerial elites
Narrating the Monarch Butterfly
A Discourse of the Social
Collective Cognition and Collaborative Work
The Oppressed, the Suspect, and the Citizen
The Social Impact of Computing
Aging as intracohort differentiation
Social structure in leader‐member interaction
Discursive Choices
Caught inside the black box
Language and power in organizational process
Minutes of History
Division of labor in conversations
The argumentative nature of holding strong views
Rethinking Coalitions
They Is Clowning Tough
Micro-Sociology on the Rise
Ethnomethodology and the production of history
Claims-Making and the Construction of Legitimacy
Shelving Issues
Nailing down an answer
Narrative Criminology as Critical Criminology
From talk to text
Narrative Identities and the Management of Personal Accountability in Talk about ME
Talking City Trouble
Language, Interaction, and Social Problems
Social organization, classificatory analogies and institutional logics
How the Media Affect What People Think
Accountability infrastructures
The Pull of the Policy Audience
Bringing the Spoken Words Back In
Exploring Violent Cosmologies From a “Radical Interactionist” Approach
Interaction and Ideology at Work
The Baffling Case of the Smoking Gun
Case Processing and Interorganizational Knowledge
Taking Account of the Hostile Native
Voter Mobilization and Party Competition in a Volatile Electorate
Ethnomethodology and the Micro-Macro Order
Analysis on the Move
After Legal Consciousness
The way it was
Temporal Frames
Hyping the Hypothetical
The Ethnographic Turn
Uses of "understand" in science education
Accounting practices in medical interviews
Whistleblower' or 'Renegade
Ethnic Differences in Interpretive Conventions and the Reproduction of Inequality in Everyday Life
Power and Solidarity in 'Interruption
Recombining micro/macro
Where You From
You're Not a Stone
Taking the Bundle Apart
Ethnomethodology's Legacies and Prospects
Structure, Institutions, Power, and Ideology
Presidential Address
The Micro-Politics of Worthy Homelessness
Avoiding Catastrophe
Taking Turns and Talking Ties
Accountability as an Inhabited Institution
Whole World Is Watching
The Battle for Public Opinion
Collected Papers. Volume I
The social construction of reality
The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media
The Very Coinage of Your Brain
News as Purposive Behavior
Resolving Reality Disjunctures on Telegraph Avenue
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
Measurement in Sociology
| Unique citing works | 87 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,17 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2024 (39) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 86 |