Doug Maynard
8101 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 265-5583
maynard@ssc.wisc.edu
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Office Hours: MW 4-5 (Spr'13)
Selected Publications:
BOOKS
1984 Inside Plea Bargaining: The Language of Negotiation. (Monograph.) New York: Plenum Press.
2002 D.W. Maynard, H. Houtkoop-Steenstra, N.C. Schaeffer, and H. van der Zouwen (eds.) Standardization and Tacit Knowledge: Interaction and Practice in the Survey Interview. New York: Wiley Interscience.
2003 Bad News, Good News: Conversational Order in Everyday Talk and Clinical Settings. (Monograph.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2006 John Heritage and D.W. Maynard (eds.) Communication in Medical Care: Interaction between Primary Care Physicians and Patients. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
SELECTED RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES
2012 An Intellectual Remembrance of Harold Garfinkel: Imagining the Unimaginable and the concept of the "Surveyable Society." Human Studies 35:209- 221.
2011 Mustafa Emirbayer and Maynard. Pragmatism and Ethnomethodology. Qualitative Sociology 34:221-261.
2010 Demur, Defer, and Deter: Concrete Actual Practices for Negotiation in Interaction. Negotiation Journal 26:125-143.
2010 D. W. Maynard, J. Freese, and N.C. Schaeffer. Calling for Participation: Requests, Blocking Moves, and Rational (Inter)action in Survey Introductions. American Sociological Review 75:791-814.
Areas of Interest:
Deviance, Law, and Social Control
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Gender
General Social Theory
History of Sociology
Medical Sociology
Qualitative Methods
Social Psychology and Microsociology
Affiliations:
Sociology
Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies
Research Interest Statement:
My orientation within sociology involves the subfields of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. People often say, "What IS ethnomethodology?" I cannot define ethnomethodology very well without having you attend one of my seminars (uh oh), but it means roughly that I am interested in direct interaction, especially the practices that participants employ together using their bodies and their talk to assemble features of the social scenes they inhabit.
People also ask me, "Since you're a conversation analyst, are you taking apart our conversation right now when we talk? How am I doing? " I can assure that I'm not able to think fast enough to analyze conversation on the fly; it takes all my energy just to be a sensible person while we talk, and no doubt the same is true for you. Each of us, I figure, gets an "A" for effort no matter what the outcome. Well, at least usually.
For my research, consequently, I use videotape and audiotape of real people in actual (not experimental or other contrived) settings dealing with one another through talk and related prosodic and embodied behaviors. I have investigated the structures of topical talk, discussions in legal settings, interviews in educational and survey settings, medical encounters, and other social arenas. A long-time project involves "bad" and "good" news as it is delivered and received in a variety of ordinary and more specialized settings, especially medicine. Another long-time project has involved collaboration with Prof. Nora Cate Schaeffer on interaction in the survey interview, most recently with regard to the problem of survey nonresponse. Currently, I am pursuing a project with graduate student Jason Turowetz on diagnosis autism spectrum disorders and with graduate student David Schelly on police interrogation.
Here is a list of publications including books as well as selected and downloadable journal articles.
I teach courses on language and social interaction (conversation analysis) and ethnomethodology as well as social psychology, and I have broad interests in theory, methodology, and science and technology studies.