“Handfuls of world”: Sacks Studies, Part 2
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https://doi.org/10.26485/PS/2026/75.1/1Keywords:
Harvey Sacks, constructive analysis, ethnomethodology, membership categorization, studies of workAbstract
This essay is introducing the second part of the thematic issue on Harvey Sacks. The first part of the thematic issue was published in Przegląd Socjologiczny 74(3) in 2025. Both parts have been timed to coincide with the anniversaries of Sacks’s birth in 1940, his death in 1975; and the publication of the single-volume Lectures on conversation in 1995. Across both parts of the thematic issue, we realize that Sacks’s work is still radical, relevant and vital for ethnomethodological programmes (ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, membership categorization analysis), linguistics and sociology. In this essay we introduce the contents of this part of the thematic issue, and connections are established between the two parts of the thematic issue.
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