From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale - Couverture souple

Lempert, Michael

 
9780226832500: From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale
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ISBN 10 : 0226832503 ISBN 13 : 9780226832500
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2024

Synopsis

A provocative and eye-opening history of how we have studied and theorized social interaction.

In this ambitious, wide-ranging book, anthropologist Michael Lempert offers a conceptual history that explores how, why, and with what effects we have come to think of interactions as “scaled.” Focusing on the sciences of interaction in midcentury America, Lempert traces how they harnessed diverse tools and media technologies, from dictation machines to 16mm film, to study communication “microscopically.” In looking closely, many hoped to transform interaction: to improve efficiency, grow democracy, curb racism, and much else. Yet their descent into a microworld created troubles, with some critics charging that these scientists couldn’t see the proverbial forest for the trees. Exploring talk therapy and group dynamics studies, social psychology and management science, conversation analysis, “micropolitics,” and more, Lempert shows how scale became a defining problem across the behavioral sciences.

Ultimately, he argues, if we learn how our objects of study have been scaled in advance, we can better understand how we think and interact with them—and with each other—across disciplinary and ideological divides. Even as once-fierce debates over micro and macro have largely subsided, Lempert shows how scale lives on and continues to affect the ethics and politics of language and communication today.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael Lempert is professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, coauthor of Creatures of Politics: Media, Message, and the American Presidency, and coeditor of Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226832503
ISBN 13 
9780226832500
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
312
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780226832487: From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale

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ISBN 10 :  0226832481 ISBN 13 :  9780226832487
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2024
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