Resisting alignment: Negotiating alignment, responsibility, and status in everyday life
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Contributions from European Symbolic Interactionists: Conflict and Cooperation (Studies in Symbolic Interaction. ed. / Thaddeus Müller. Vol. 45 Emerald Publishing Limited, 2015. p. 159-176 (Studies in Symbolic Interaction; Vol. 45).
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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 -