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Sacks, Harvey. 1972. An initial investigation of the usability of conversational data for doing sociology. In Sudnow, David, ed. Studies in social interaction. The Free Press. pp. 31–74.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English

Annotation

S. uses conversations between suicidal persons (or others speaking on their behalf) and the staff of an emergency psychiatric clinic as data from which to draw sociological conclusions.