Harvey Sacks: Social Science and Conversation Analysis

Rating:
Summary: Not bad, but it doesn't do full justice to the original
Review: If you are looking for an easy way into the work of Harvey Sacks, this is a decent book with which to start. But is isn't a book with which to stay if you seek to understand the breadth and depth of the remarkable work of this enormously talented analyst of everyday language-use, interactional sociolinguistics and ethnomethodological sociology. On the other hand, it IS at best a decent introductory text in a market noticeably absent of such.