Harvey Sacks's Sociology of Mind in Action

Watson, Rod

doi:10.1177/026327694011004007

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“…As Coulter (1989) and Watson (1994 1998) argue, all too often cognition becomes the province of those sciences that provide explanations in terms of indirectly accessible yet causative psychological processes (there are a number of important critiques and respecifications of cognition from within psychology, such as Edwards (1997), Te Molder and Potter (2005) and famously on navigation, Hutchins (1993 1995)). In re‐appropriating perception, beliefs, mental representation, decisionmaking, these psychological processes become socially situated and localised (or globalised) practices of seeing, looking, imagining, categorising, inferring and so on (Lynch 1993; Latour 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%

Rotating maps and readers: praxiological aspects of alignment and orientation

Laurier

Brown

2008

Trans Inst British Geog

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A longstanding topic in our notions of what geographic knowledge could be is the mental map, or, in its most recent form, mental spatial representations. In this paper we draw upon ethnomethodological critiques of cognition, and mind more generally, to re-specify navigation, orientation and alignment in terms of human practices of navigating, orienting and aligning in particular settings. Our ambition in the paper is less to dismantle notions of cognition still present in geographers' studies of map use; instead we offer the beginnings of a way of analysing ordinary practices of wayfinding that treats matters of reasoning as publicly available in gestures and conversation rather than indirectly accessible inner processes of mental map consultation. To do so we describe what occurs during two video fragments involving consultation of maps in commonplace situations. The first is a group of tourists on foot trying to find an old building in Edinburgh and the second daytrippers travelling out for a day in the countryside locating some recommended places to visit in a road atlas. key words cognition navigation orientation video-analysis ethnomethodology

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Rotating maps and readers: praxiological aspects of alignment and orientation

Laurier

Brown

2008

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Although Goode rapidly dispensed with "mind" as irrelevant to his investigation of play, we have retained an interest in using actual episodes to pursue matters such as where walkers "intend" to go next and how intended actions are produced and recognised in the lived work of a particular practice. It is the work of Coulter (1983) and R. Watson (1994) and others (Carlin, 2003;Schegloff, 1992;Silverman, 1998) that has consistently taken Harvey Sacks, in particular, as a successor to Wittgenstein (1953) in developing a thorough respecification of mind. Mind has been shifted away from mental, cognitive terms toward, and replaces in our analyses, the speaker-hearer of talk, with the producer-recogniser of intelligible action:…”

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“…Our article shares with Goode's comprehensive study of human-animal play a commitment to examining actual instances of joint conduct and the research policies of ethnomethodology (Garfinkel & Wieder, 1992). However, whereas Goode described his instances to respecify theories of play, we have a more traditional ethnomethodological (and conversation analytic) concern with mind (Coulter, 1979;R. Watson, 1994) and draw on instances of walking together.…”

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Putting the Dog Back in the Park: Animal and Human Mind-in-Action

Laurier¹,

Mazé²,

Lundin³

2006

Mind, Culture, and Activity

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In this article we use actual instances of human conduct with animals to reflect on the debates about animal agency in human activities. Where much of psychology, philosophy, and sociology begin with a fundamental scepticism over animal mind as the grounds for its inquiries, we join with a growing body of work that examines the continuities between animals and humans, and accepts the positive possibilities of anthropomorphising animals. We are interested in the reason and intelligence that animals display in their activities with humans. Inverting the typical approach of explaining canine reason by reference to the behaviour of their wild counterparts, we describe human-canine action as it occurs in the widespread, historically assembled, and spatially situated activity of dog walking in parks. We treat dog walking as a living accomplishment of owner and dog methodically displaying intent and producing social objects. THE PLACES OF HUMAN-ANIMAL MIND Philosophers, ethologists, neuroscientists, builders of robots, animal rights groups, and others have fiercely debated the relations between animal mind and human mind (Bekoff & Jamieson, 1990; Griffin, 1992; Midgely, 1983; Nagel, 1986). A persistent impulse in these debates has been the delimitation of what an animal is and what a human is, or if you like, the boundary between animal being and human being. Related scientific investigations of canine mind and human-canine psychology (Bergler, 1988) have proceeded mostly from the premise that dogs are quite naturally different from humans. Although we do not deny the difference between dogs and humans, we are wary of the next move that is made by many ethologists, psychologists, zoologists, and neuroscientists to sunder dogs from their place beside us as fellow subjects. In her reading of Charles Darwin's The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals, Crist (1999, 2002) recovered a positive and bold anthropomorphism as a constitutive stance in Darwin's studies of animals and insects. For Darwin there was an "evolutionary continuity" (Crist, 1999, p. 49) between all animals that in turn unavoidably included mental and behavioural continuities, and this came with the further implication

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“…Thus, social belonging implies not only mental representations but also communicative representations that can be traced back to the surface level of discourse, that is, to what is made noticeable by the participants. The conversation analysis approach to membership categorisation devices (compare with Sacks (1992) and a number of studies that have followed this direction, such as Jayyusi (1984), Watson (1994), Hester and Eglin (1997), Hausendorf (2000)) is one of the research traditions that this point of view can rest on, and it is the tradition our concept of communicating citizenship is especially indebted to.…”

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Participatory science governance revisited: normative expectations versus empirical evidence

Bora

Hausendorf

2006

sci public policy

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In a comparative study in seven European countries, the impact of participatory decisionmaking procedures on the communicative construction of citizenship was studied. Oral and written data from licensing procedures on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been analysed with methods of conversation analysis. The study shows that participatory science governance itself may cause serious trouble when it is embedded in a formal procedure with a relatively strong legal framework. Political communication becomes rather marginal under such circumstances. This result indicates that the unspecific claim for more and broader participation of the public might be dysfunctional, even if it seems to be legitimate from a normative point of view.

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Harvey Sacks's Sociology of Mind in Action

Cited by 22 publications

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Rotating maps and readers: praxiological aspects of alignment and orientation

Rotating maps and readers: praxiological aspects of alignment and orientation

Putting the Dog Back in the Park: Animal and Human Mind-in-Action

Participatory science governance revisited: normative expectations versus empirical evidence

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