By David Silverman
Harvey Sacks's early dying in 1975 robbed the social sciences of 1 of its most unique thinkers. even supposing he released really little in his lifetime, his lectures and papers have been greatly influential in sociology and sociolinguistics, and so they performed a huge function within the improvement of ethnomethodology and dialog research. the new e-book of Sacks's Lectures on dialog has supplied a very good chance for a wide-ranging reassessment of his contribution. during this new ebook, David Silverman offers a transparent advent to Sacks's paintings and reassesses its price for sociology, linguistics, anthropology, and psychology. utilizing quite a few examples, he explains Sacks's rules on technique, language and talk-interaction. He argues that Sack's paintings bargains a hugely unique point of view on language and social existence and increases basic questions for the social sciences--questions which, after greater than 20 years, stay extremely important and principally unanswered. Written in a full of life and available manner, this booklet can be of specific curiosity to scholars of sociology, sociolinguistics, social concept and procedure, however it can also be of curiosity to scholars and researchers in anthropology, psychology, and comparable disciplines.
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Again, his period at Yale working on a law degree was principally important for learning from Harold Lasswell the importance of focusing on how the law (and, by implication, any social institution) worked. Schegloff (LCI: xiii) tells us that Sacks first met Harold Garfinkel in 1959 at Harvard, where Garfinkel was spending his sabbatical. However, direct collaboration with Garfinkel was to be postponed for four more years. In 1959-60, when Sacks began graduate work at Berkeley, he encountered Erving Goffman.
LC2: 338) No doubt even this reply would be another black mark in our age of student-centred learning, where presentation skills sometimes seem to rate above the content of lectures. However, this did not mean that Sacks's students were offered grand theory that went above their heads or, to any great extent, programmatic statements about Sacks's position vis-a-vis the social sciences. On the contrary, Sacks offered his students demonstrations of how he worked with small pieces of data. As he put it: Basically what I have to sell is the sorts of work I can do.
Although Sacks only mentions Wittgenstein twice in his lectures, the latter's analysis of what we know already is also clearly relevant. As Wittgenstein put it: The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity' (Wittgenstein 1968: para. 129). In a similar vein, Sacks remarks: I take it that lots of the results I offer, people can see for themselves. And they needn't be afraid to. And they needn't figure that the results are wrong because they can see them ...