Introduction. Risk and hope: Daily life subversions of the norm -- Part 1. Framing of Norms and Illegalities, Theoretical to Ethnographic. Anthropological shades of grey: Informal norms and becoming (il)legal -- Methodological legalism -- On doing fieldwork, outspokenly: Ethics,…
"Based on in-depth ethnographic research, Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Political Control explores the entanglements and contradictions of legal and illegal practices across multiple cultures"--
"Based on in-depth ethnographic research, Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Political Control explores the entanglements and contradictions of legal and illegal practices across multiple cultures"--
Rules: a short history of what we live by
"Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yea…
Often lost in the debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what is being constructed. Particularly troublesome in this area is the status of the natural sciences, where there is conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness, and in…
Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds …
Erving Goffman et l'ordre de l'interaction
A travers le concept d'ordre de l'interaction, E. Goffman s'intéressait aux situations de vie ordinaires. Cette étude présente deux textes du sociologue américain et une série de contributions sur le sujet, qui mettent en évidence le lien de sa pensée avec la sociologie de Chica…
Contemporary social problems
