ABSTRACT
The turn to social interaction is both a recognition and a celebration of actual peoples' lives and actions as producing moment by moment accountable and warranted institutional orders. The attraction of both ethnomethodology and conversation analysis is a resolute focus on people's concerted in vivo and situated doings. A simple focus on what social workers and youth did in the moments of interaction allows us to explicate just how they quite practically went about making or constituting occasions as warrantably and accountably 'interviews'. Post-modernist is a commitment to truth as a shared project, as something that the author muddles towards together, that preserves the 'social' in social work. Indeed the challenge of honoring loyalties and taking sides is so intense that social workers can easily abandon the side of clients, abandon the side of poor peoples, and in child welfare, abandon listening to the voices of children and youth.
