Everyday incivility and the urban interaction order

Horgan, Mervyn

doi:10.1075/jlac.00018.hor

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“…The ‘strong program’ treats ritual, morality, and the symbolic codes of sacred and profane as constitutive features of social solidarity. Examining resonances between these approaches is part of a broader project probing ways that analyses of interaction and of symbolic dimensions of collective life might learn from, enhance, and mutually reinforce one another [see Horgan (2019 , 2020 , 2021 , Forthcoming) ].…”

Section: Never the Twain? Emca And Cultural Sociologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rather, they are drawn upon and borne out of reflection on lifeworld experiences: embodied experience provides the tangible reality where moral ideals manifest. As I have suggested, it is, in part, ritual elements of mundane social life that foreground interaction’s moral dimensions, such that breaches may elicit immediate responses in defense of that order at the scene of interaction, and post hoc interpretations centering collective life’s moral underpinnings [see also Horgan (2019) ]. It is not only in ritualized encounters themselves or in their breaches, but also in reflections upon such encounters that we get some purchase on how everyday life and the broader moral worldviews that swirl around it connect.…”

Section: Everyday Lifeworlds As Moral Landscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, decades of research shows the unequal application of civil inattention, with those in structurally vulnerable positions more subject to ritual breaches (Gardner, 1989(Gardner, , 1995Duneier and Molotch, 1999;Anderson, 2011Anderson, , 2023. Civil attention is a ritual means for demonstrating a form of inclusion that is intersubjectively rather than legally upheld (Horgan, 2019). In this sense, it is "one of the ways in which we communicate respect for others and generate habits of moral equality" in everyday life (Boyd, 2006, p. 863).…”

Section: Strangers and Public Space: Civil Inattention As Ritual Inci...mentioning

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Moral landscapes and morally meaningful encounters: how interaction ritual connects conversation analysis and cultural sociology

Horgan

2024

Front. Sociol.

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This article presents a theoretical argument for examining the previously unexamined interface between the strong program in cultural sociology ethnomethodology/conversation analysis (EMCA). While these two approaches have radically different theoretical and empirical commitments, they nonetheless share a common root in Durkheim’s sociology, specifically with regard to the centrality of solidarity, ritual, and morality to collective life. Similarly rooted in Durkheim, Goffman’s theory of interaction ritual provides an analytic pivot between EMCA and the strong program. The broader theoretical argument is illustrated using data from interviews with adults about their most recent encounter with a rude strangers in public space, which are here treated a breaches of the interaction ritual of civil inattention. Members readily draw on the specifics of a particular stranger interaction gone awry to reflect on the nature of life in public and to expound on their understandings of the ethics of face-to-face interaction and everyday morality more generally. Where EMCA focuses on the discoverability of the organizational features of everyday interaction, the position developed here is concerned with the organization of members’ interpretations of everyday interaction. While centered on specific kinds of interactional breaches, by finding common ground between EMCA and cultural sociology, the argument advances a potentially more broadly applicable approach that treats everyday encounters as morally meaningful and everyday lifeworlds as moral landscapes. Developing a comprehensive understanding of copresent interaction as a basic building block of society requires attention to both the organizational dynamics of copresent encounters and to the interpretive resources that ordinary members use to account for and justify their own and others’ conduct.

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Section: Never the Twain? Emca And Cultural Sociologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Everyday Lifeworlds As Moral Landscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%