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George Psathas
Professor Emeritus



Ph.D. Yale University 1956

geops1@bu.edu




BIO AND RESEARCH

Current writing and research is on studies of the relation of Alfred Schutz's thought to Max Weber on the matter of ideal types; comparisons of Shutz and Harvey Sacks on the notions of type and typification; and assessing the influence of Alfred Shutz on American sociology. The latter topic is to be expanded into a broader study of the influence of phenomenology on American sociologists and sociology.

My interest is in showing the ways in which phenomelogical perspectives have influenced and continue to influence sociological theory and methodology. A related interest is in explicating and analyzing developments in ethnomethodological sociology and conversation/interaction analysis.




SELECT PUBLICATIONS

"Talk and Social Structure" and "Studies of Work" in Human Studies, 18, 2-3, 1995, 139-155

"Phenomenology in Sociology in the United States" in Encyclopedia of Phenomenology Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997

On multiple realities and the world of film, in L. Embree (ed.) Alfred Schutz's 'Sociological Aspect of Literature', University Press of America, 1997, pp. 219-235

Studying the Organization in Action: Membership Categorization and Interaction Analysis, Human Studies, vol. 22, 2-4, 1999, pp. 1-25

On the Study of Human Action, in L. Embree (ed.) Schutzian Social Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, 47-68.

Conversation Analysis: The Study of Talk-in-Interaction, Sage Publications 1995



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