Language, Interaction, and Social Problems

摘要: This paper addresses the question of why study language and interaction matters to sociology social problems. The proposed answer is that such lends understanding what Goffman called “interaction order.” Language studies, is, have a first-order concern with how talk work; as byproduct, they offer different standpoint for organizational traditionally-identified problems subcultures, conflict, power, troubles, institutional processing. appeal here not investigating micro-analytic dimensions abstractly-defined problems, but approaching order substantive domain in its own right.