On Sacks: methodology, materials, and inspirations

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- 1. On Sacks: methodology, materials, and inspirations -- 2. Discovering Sacks -- 3. Action, meaning and understanding: seeing sociologically with Harvey Sacks -- 4. Sacks's plenum: the inscription of social orders -- 5. From ethnosemantics to occasioned semantics: the transformative influence of Harvey Sacks -- 6. Sacks, categories, language, and gender -- 7. A most remarkable fact, for all intents and purposes: the practical matter of categorical truths -- 8. Sacks: omni-relevance and the layered texture of interaction -- 9. Membership categorization and the sequential multimodal organization of action: walking, perceiving, and talking in material-spatial ecologies -- 10. Revisiting Sacks's work on greetings: the 'first position' for greetings -- 11. Sacks, silence, and self-(de)selection -- 12. "Using observation as a basis for theorizing": children's interactions and social order -- 13. Membership categorisation and the notion of "omni-relevance" in everyday family interactions -- 14. Sacks and the study of the local organization of second language lessons -- 15. Categorisation practices, place, and perception: doing incongruities and the commonplace scene as 'assembled activity' -- 16. On Sacks and the analysis of racial categories-in-action -- 17. Harvey Sacks, membership categorization and social media -- Index.