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The Tumbril and the Classroom
In: Economic Affairs, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 43-47
ISSN: 1468-0270
State Subversion of Private Initiatives
In: Economic Affairs, Band 1, Heft 3, S. 166-167
ISSN: 1468-0270
Ideas and Intervention: Social theory for Practice
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 656-657
ISSN: 1469-8684
Some Organizational Features in the Local Production of a Plausible Text*‡
In: Philosophy of the social sciences: an international journal = Philosophie des sciences sociales, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 113-135
ISSN: 1552-7441
Given that written texts are characterized by indexicality and incompleteness; how is it that they are read and followed then judged adequate? In particular how are social scientific arguments read as plausible under such conditions? It is suggested that the very natural language that renders such arguments in principle problematic, provides a resource in its textual particulars for the repair of indexicality. The article analyzes some local textual features with methods borrowed from conversational analysis to demonstrate three reader/writer strategies 'age orientation', the categorization of a population as more than incidentally juvenile; establishing 'author authority' ; and 'investing' (apparently senseless actors with 'purpose'.
This will hurt: the restoration of virtue and civic order
In: A National review book
The loss of virtue: moral confusion and social disorder in Britain and America
In: A National Review Book
The unmentionable face of poverty in the nineties: domestic incompetence, improvidence and male irresponsibility in low income families
In: The Moral dimension of social policy
Book Review: Language, Thought and Reality, Again
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 287-293
ISSN: 1469-8684
Biasing the News: Technical Issues in `Media Studies'
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 367-385
ISSN: 1469-8684
The first part of the article is a general critique of radical media/cultural studies; the second is an illustration of these criticisms detailed through analysis of one media student's treatment of a newspaper. In general, the authors find media studies do not establish that their reading of materials is the reading made by media consumers; that the bias they allege in the media is not significant; that they set up a false and irrelevant model of what the media producers are trying/claiming to do; that they displace the technical-professional interests of media producers with their own ideological interests and that their analysis of texts is crude. In particular, they show how trivial identifications are turned into significant ones; how items are transformed in their transfer from media page to media criticism page; and how readings of a media text are argumentatively and constrastively organized. In summary it is argued that such plausibility as the media critics' arguments possess derives not from the accuracy but from the presentational organization of their analysis.