TY - CHAP

T1 - Resisting alignment

T2 - Negotiating alignment, responsibility, and status in everyday life

AU - Dellwing, Michael

N1 - Michael Dellwing Contributions from European Symbolic Interactionists: Conflict and Cooperation, ISBN: 978-1-78441-856-4, eISBN: 978-1-78441-855-7

PY - 2015/7/2

Y1 - 2015/7/2

N2 - The study of accounts, corrective practices, or aligning actions has grown to constitute a significant sub-discipline within everyday life sociology. Most work in this field starts with an assumption of order and assumes that accounts reestablish broken sociality. However, much accounting activity resists against alignment efforts, and alignment efforts can be used as a means of conflict. The present chapter aims to survey situations in which actors resist and negotiate alignment and the power and status conflicts involved in these negotiations. With these conflicts, participants also negotiate responsibility, which is here seen not as an internal attribute of actors, but a socially negotiated meaning as well. On a larger level, the present chapter shows how levels of meaning are intertwined in alignment situations, making them much more than mere tools to produce and protect order.

AB - The study of accounts, corrective practices, or aligning actions has grown to constitute a significant sub-discipline within everyday life sociology. Most work in this field starts with an assumption of order and assumes that accounts reestablish broken sociality. However, much accounting activity resists against alignment efforts, and alignment efforts can be used as a means of conflict. The present chapter aims to survey situations in which actors resist and negotiate alignment and the power and status conflicts involved in these negotiations. With these conflicts, participants also negotiate responsibility, which is here seen not as an internal attribute of actors, but a socially negotiated meaning as well. On a larger level, the present chapter shows how levels of meaning are intertwined in alignment situations, making them much more than mere tools to produce and protect order.

KW - Accounts

KW - Aligning actions

KW - Conflict

KW - Resistance

KW - Stability

KW - Sociology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84937441357&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1108/s0163-239620150000045008

DO - 10.1108/s0163-239620150000045008

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

AN - SCOPUS:84937441357

SN - 978-1-78441-856-4

VL - 45

T3 - Studies in Symbolic Interaction

SP - 159

EP - 176

BT - Contributions from European Symbolic Interactionists

A2 - Müller, Thaddeus

PB - Emerald Publishing Limited

ER -