Accounting for Friendship: Moral Ordering and Category Membership in Preadolescent Girls' Relational Talk

The Handbook of Language Socialization

“…Negative category-bound activities in Evaldsson's (2007) sh\dies of girls' groups, including fighting, blaming, exploiting others, lying, and talking behind people's backs, were associated with the category 'bad friend.' Being poor (not having Pokemon cards, wearing old clothing, or lacking material goods more generally), having limited Swedish language proficiency, dressing like a girl, and being labeled a 'Gypsy' (rather than the in-group label 'Romany' commonly used in school) were negative person descriptors among boys of working-class or immigrant background in multietlrnic elementary school groups in Sweden (Evaldsson 2005: 771).…”

“…Through examining stance-taking, we can come to grips with the concerns that deeply animate participants. Evaldsson (2007) explored how 'relationship work' is accomplished among a multiethnic group of immigrant Swedish girls aged between 11 and 12. She was concerned with moral ordering by peers, achieved tluough both sequential analysis and category membership.…”

‘Let’s have the men clean up’: Interpersonally communicated stereotypes as a resource for resisting gender-role prescribed activities

“…In this way, membership categorization is relevant to how people do morality in talk when gender becomes the basis on which reproaches and complaints are built (e.g., Evaldsson, 2007;Jayyusi, 2014;Rapley, McCarthy, and McHoul, 2003;Stokoe, 2003).…”

Tokens, peer context and mobility in preschool children's positioning work

“…Research from various points of view has shown that children in preschool and school construct social relations and social order in shared activities of different kinds, such as play activities (Corsaro, 1985(Corsaro, , 2005Löfdahl & Hägglund, 2006a;Löfdahl & Hägglund, 2006b;Löfdahl, 2006), art and narration activities (Änggård, 2005a, 2005b), computer activities (Ljung-Djärf, 2008), science activities and literacy events (Ritchie, 2002;Zacker, 2008) and conversations (Evaldsson, 2004(Evaldsson, , 2007Goodwin, 2002). There are also studies of positioning in children's daily activities in school (Ayton, 2008).…”