Harvey Sacks

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Harvey Sacks ( 1935 - November 14, 1975 ) was an American sociologist who had a strong influence on ethnomethodology .

Scientific work

Sacks was pioneering in sociology and linguistics and carried out the first conversational analytical studies, which instead of simplifying modeling investigated the phenomenon of "actually spoken language" (naturally occurring interaction) in detail. In spite of his early death in a car accident in 1975 and the publication work that was hardly pursued during his lifetime, he and his conceptions are leading and influential in sociology and social psychology . Few of his works have been translated into German.

His main work, which is available today, consists mainly of transcripts of his lectures and sparse articles released individually from the literary estate. The pioneering Simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking in conversation , which he wrote together with his former students Gail Jefferson and his current administrator Emanuel Schegloff , is an exception .

See also

literature

  • Lectures on conversation (1995) ISBN 1557867054
  • “The telling of stories within conversations.” Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie , 15 (1971), pp. 307-317
  • Sacks, Harvey, E. Schegloff, and G. Jefferson (1974) “A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking in conversation.” Language 50 (4), pp. 696-735
  • With Harold Garfinkel : (1969) “On formal structures of practical action”, in: JC McKinney / EA Tiryakian (eds.), Theoretical Sociology. Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, pp. 338-366. New in H. Garfinkel (ed.), Ethnomethodological Studies of Work. Pp. 160-193. German translation ("On formal structures of practical actions") in E. Weingarten u. a. (Ed.), Ethnomethodology. Contributions to a sociology of everyday action. (1976) pp. 130-176

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Prof. Harvey Sacks , nytimes.com, accessed June 20, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Sacks, Harvey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1975