The Interactional Order: New Directions in the Study of Social Order

This volume brings t9gether a diverse collection of studies rooted in the microanalytic tradition. In their diversity, these studies reflect the steadily increasing scope and range of application for microanalytic research. And yet, they have elements of a shared concern and a common heritage. It is the intent of the editors that this book should be of interest to a broad range of potential readers. That is, it provides, for the informed reader, a sample of the diversity of direction and a sense of the challenges raised by current studies of interaction and social order. It also serves, for the uninitiated reader, as an introduction to the logic, theory and practices of a particular sort of microanalytic research; one which is informed by and/or arises from an ethnomethodological perspective.