ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the basic theoretical and analytical tenets of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, basic frameworks for the current book, and highlights the similarities and differences between these approaches and the work of Goffman on social interaction, interaction order, mutual monitoring, and response cries. The chapter also describes G. Jefferson’s work on video analysis, M. H. Goodwin’s development of an approach to the study of children’s lives and interaction that integrates conversation analysis and ethnography, and ethnomethodological family interaction studies that examine membership categorization devices, directives, assessments, affect, and alignment. Here we also outline the chapters of the book.
