Ambiguous Harmony

Clifford Hill, Paul Byers

The authors first indicate how one must understand the old recognition that apparently individual behavior within any family must be understood in terms of the whole. They then investigate features of this whole, first as a local production and then in the historical context to which it is respons

INTRODUCTIONThe Nature of FamiliesThe Culture of Families: What We' DoMaking and Unmaking Families in AmericaFamily, Culture and CommunicationObserving Actual Families at WorkMaking One's Family Life in AmericaWriting One Family's Life in AmericaFAMILY AND COMMUNICATIONA HALF HOUR OF FAMILY LIFE OR THE PRODUCTION OF THE FIRST "TEXTS"The People and the Physical SettingAn Evening's ActivitiesWays of KnowingThe Production of the TextsThe Production of the First TextTranscribingWhat to IncludeWhat We DidTHE MAKING OF AN ANALYSISThe Production of Analytic TextsThe Place of the Figures Within the Overall TextEpilogueTHE CONSTRUCTION OF A CONVERSATION: TALK AND TOPICHe Said "." AND THEN She Said "."The Identification of TopicsThe Emergence of Conversational ContentThe Closet and the SinkThe Culture of Analytic StatementsAMBIGUITIES IN THE ANALYSIS OF FAMILIAL COMMUNICATION: POWER AND STRUCTUREInteraction: War and CooperationPower as Action in SocietyInstances of Family DisagreementsTokens of AggravationA Formal Cultural AnalysisA Formal Theoretical AnalysisBehavior and StructurePARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN AT TALKTalking with ChildrenCoherence, Coherently"Mom!": The Coherence of Calls for Attention. " ": The Coherence of SilenceA Familial UnisonThe Gift: Grammatical and Interactional Musical ChairsThe Choice: Constructing the ChildConversational Accomplishment in FamiliesTHE CULTURING OF FAMILIAL LIFETHE CULTURING OF ACTIONSocial Fact and Cultural PatternCulture: Pattern and IdentificationA FAMILY'S SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND ITS "CULTURE"The Organization of a Family's ConversationParental Gifts: Pencils and Conversational TurnsSimple and Elaborated Systematics for Turn-TakingRules for AnalysisTransitionsThe ActivitiesThe ActorsTemporal OrganizationThe Social Organization of the ActorsThe Complex Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking Among the HarveysTHE CULTURAL INDENTIFICATION OF A FAMILY'S CULTURECulture and IdentificationThe Culturing of Family Talk: From History to Symbolic "Normalcy"The Harveys in the United StatesThe Harveys in America: Culturing Culturings"American Child Rearing Patterns" as ConstructedThe Harveys in AmericaTALK AND REAL TALK: VOICES OF SILENCE AND VOICES OF POWERThe Present in the FutureSeven TextsA Family at Work: Constructing the PresentEstablishing the Past: What Happened?(Re-)Constructing the Past: What "Really" Happened (?)The Structure of Scholarly DiscourseThe Concrete Logic of IntertextualityThe Construction of AmericaCONCLUSION: FAMILY, CULTURE, AND PRACTICEFrom the Local to the Global and Back AgainThe Expert: Cultural Conditions and Directed ActivitySensitivity and Cultural ConditionThe Responsibilities of PracticeEpilogue, ReferencesAppendicesAuthor IndexSubject Index