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Start Over Topic social interaction Publication Year Range Last 50 years Publisher transilvania university of brasov, faculty of law & sociology
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1. PITFALLS OF AGENCY AS A TOOL FOR SOCIOLOGISTS: SOME THOUGHTS FROM AN INTERACTIONAL POINT OF VIEW.

Author

Fele, Giolo

Subjects
SOCIAL action, SOCIOLOGISTS, THEORY, INDIVIDUALISM, VOLUNTEER service, CALL centers, SOCIAL policy
Abstract

The point of the paper is discussing whether the term ‘agency’ is useful for the study of interaction practices or whether instead it denotes a set of features which relate to an individualistic perspective from the point of view of a theory or social action, and a voluntaristic perspective from the point of view of a theory of language in action. The argument of the paper is that studying interaction does not require an individualistic and voluntaristic notion of social action. In this regard, Goffman, Garfinkel and conversational analysis offer an alternative approach to the study of interaction practices in natural settings. This reasoning stems from data collected during research conducted on medical emergency call centres in Italy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2010