Doing Modernity: Studies in Critical Interactionism

A cafe as it happens ;  having breakfast out - Eric Laurier,  University of Glasgow, 2003. ...as it happens In her later work Deirdre Boden (1994a; 1994b) was constantly reminding us of ‘the compulsion of proximity’, the peculiar parallel development of technologies that allow remote cooperation and collaboration with a boom in travel to distant and nearby gathering places. For all that we were acquiring the means to have the world delivered to us at our home address, we remained bound to seeking out places where we could be close to others. Hers was no easy paradox to be resolved by proxemic compulsion as a social rule, economic law or manifestations of evolutionary psychology. Dede Boden’s studies exhibited the ways in which business, education, law and politics were bound to un-noticed situated practices, particularly those of face-to-face conversation. Her work, steeped in ethnomethodology, described what happened when bus...

Ideology, Science and Social Relations A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Epistemology Dorothy E. Smith UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA Abstract The article argues that Marx’s use of the concept of ideology in The German Ideology is incidental to a sustained critique of how those he described as the German ideologists think and reason about society and history and that this critique is not simply of an idealist theory that represents society and history as determined by consciousness but of methods of reasoning that treat concepts, even of those of political economy, as determinants. His view of how consciousness is determined historically by our social being does not envisage some kind of mechanical transfer of class status to class conscious- ness. Rather, he works with an epistemology that takes the concepts foun- dational to political economy as expressions or reflections of the s...