Managing unavoidable conflicts in caretaking of the elderly: humor as a mitigating resource
In: International journal of the sociology of language: IJSL, Band 2009, Heft 200
ISSN: 1613-3668
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In: International journal of the sociology of language: IJSL, Band 2009, Heft 200
ISSN: 1613-3668
In: Learning, culture and social interaction, Band 8, S. 25-47
ISSN: 2210-6561
In: CoDesign, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 200-214
ISSN: 1745-3755
This chapter develops an ethnomethodologically-informed view regarding the sociality of objects, building upon Garfinkel's various descriptions of object constitution. We examine a particular case of diagnostic reasoning produced in the course of carrying out a surgical procedure at a teaching hospital. Our interest is in the methods employed by the surgeons in resolving certain incongruities in the case as it presents itself. Through an occasioned process of inquiry, the case at hand comes to be seen in a new light. This revised clinical picture is the oriented object under consideration here