Doing Modernity -- Mission and Index of Articles

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 Doing Modernity: Mission & Index



Mission


Doing Modernity is a living textbook and public sociology project dedicated to Critical Interactionism — the fusion of Symbolic Interactionism, Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis, Goffman-inspired research, Institutional Ethnography, and Phenomenological Sociology.

This blog curates essays, classic studies, and autoethnographic reflections to illuminate how social order is achieved moment by moment, how inequality is reproduced in everyday life, and how lived experience can ground theory. The aim is both pedagogical (a resource for students and scholars) and political (a contribution to liberationist social thought).

Index of Posts


Inequality in Action: Granting Service Requests in a Highly Resource-Constrained Setting (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/09/inequality-in-action-granting-service.html)

Doing Feminist Conversation Analysis by Celia Kitzinger (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/09/doing-feminist-conversation-analysis.html)

Building a New Astronomy Without a Telescope: Why Critical Interactionism Cannot Ignore EM/CA (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/09/building-new-astronomy-without-telescope.html)

Michael Hviid Jacobsen's Introduction to Critical and Cultural Interactionism (2019) (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/09/michael-hviid-jacobsen-introduction.html)

First Encounter at the Stone Wall: A Flash Autoethnography of Street Outreach (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/09/first-encounter-at-stone-wall.html)

How to Read People: A Critical Interactionist Guide (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-to-read-people-critical.html)

Recovering Harvey Sacks: The Man Behind Conversation Analysis (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/07/recovering-harvey-sacks-man-behind.html)

Harvey Molotch and the Foundations of Critical Interactionism (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/07/harvey-molotch-and-foundations-of.html)

Interactionist Studies of Work (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/06/interactionist-studies-of-work.html)

An Introduction to Doing Modernity: A Critical Interactionist Approach to Social Psychology (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/05/an-introduction-to-doing-modernity.html)

Doing Modernity: The Emerging Blog Textbook (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/05/doing-modernity-emerging-blog-textbook.html)

Interaction Orders: Erving Goffman and the Sociology of Everyday Life (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/05/interaction-orders-erving-goffman-and.html)

George Herbert Mead and the Making of Symbolic Interactionism (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/05/george-herbert-mead-and-making-of.html)

Auto-Ethnography as a Research Methodology in Critical Interactionism (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/04/auto-ethnography-as-research.html)

The Recursive Discovery Fallacy (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-recursive-discovery-fallacy.html)

Reflexive Praxis and Being an Ally (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/02/reflexive-praxis-and-being-ally.html)

Understanding Micro-Sociology (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2024/04/understanding-micro-sociology.html)

Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2024/03/ethnomethodological-conversation-analysis.html)

Unlearning Oppression (https://doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2023/11/unlearning-oppression.html)

Classic Studies on Doing Modernity


- Erving Goffman — Interaction Order and Civil Inattention
- Harold Garfinkel — Studies in Ethnomethodology and later writings
- Harvey Sacks — Lectures in Conversation Analysis
- Don Zimmerman, Doug Maynard, Candace West, and others shaping EM/CA
- Howard Becker — Outsiders
- Contemporary critical interactionists such as Michael Hviid Jacobsen

How to Navigate


- Use this Index to find key essays.
- Click Blog Archive in the sidebar to browse the full collection.
- Explore Labels (e.g., ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism, pedagogy, autoethnography) for thematic groupings.

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