From small talk to microaggression : a history of scale / Michael Lempert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lempert, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversation analysis.

Scaling (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

xi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Summary:

"In this ambitious, wide-ranging book, anthropologist Michael Lempert offers a conceptual history that traces how, why, and with what effects interactions became 'scaled.' Focusing on US-based sciences of interaction from 1930 to 1980, Lempert meticulously traces our efforts to study conversation microscopically and shows how scale-making has defined pioneering work in sociology, anthropology, and linguistics, and how its legacy lives on to this day. From talk therapy to personality studies, social psychology, management science, conversation analysis, 'micropolitics,' and more, Lempert shows how scale became a defining problem across the behavioral sciences, and how new tools and technologies were developed to get to the heart of social life at its most granular. Ultimately, he argues that, by discovering how our objects of study have been scaled in advance, we can better understand how we think and interact with them, and with each other, across disciplinary and ideological divides"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. How Scale Broke the World

Part I. Fine-Grained Analysis. The Chattering Unconscious and the Tells of Talk

The First Five Minutes

The First Five Seconds

Part II. Small Groups. Rigorously, Manageably Small

Interaction Recorders

Interaction as a Liberal Technology

Part III. Micropolitics. The Interpersonal Gets Political

Interruption-and Male Supremacy

Tempest in the Transcript

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226832487

0226832481

9780226832500

0226832503

OCLC:

1430499828