Doing Modernity: Studies in Critical Interactionism

  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-con...

Doing Feminist Conversation Analysis Celia KITZINGER Feminism & Psychology © 2000 SAGE (London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi), Vol. 10(2): 163–193. This article argues for, and offers empirical demonstration of, the value of conversation analysis (CA) for feminist research. It counters three key criticisms of CA as anti-feminist: the alleged incompatibility of CA’s social theory with feminism; the purported difficulty of reconciling analysts’ and participants’ concerns; and CA’s apparent obsession with the minutiae of talk rather than socio-political reality. It demonstrates the potential of CA for advances in lesbian/feminist research through two examples: developing a feminist approach to date rape and sexual refusal; and an ongoing CA study of talk in which people ‘come out’ as lesbian, gay, bisexual or as having (had) same-sex sexual experiences. These examples are used to illustrate that it is precisely the features of CA criticized as anti-feminist which can be used productive...