John Manzo

On the Sociology of Justice: Theoretical Notes From an Actual Jury Deliberation*

The AA. take an ethnometodological approach to justice, attempting to recover it as a feature of practical activity or a « phenomenon of order ». Their analysis involves an actual videotaped jury deliberation. In his classic study of decision making by juries, Garfinkel observed that jurors changed their reliance on commonsense reasoning very little, even thought they were instructed to adhere to official and legal criteria for guilt. The vacillation between commonsense reasoning and using official criteria creates a tension ; in the data of this study this tension is manifested as the choice between adhering to law and procedural rules and providing « justice ». By articulating this tension as a puzzle, several of the jurors prepare the way for using « justice », and then use this concept in formal ways which, along with other discursive patterns and strategies, constitute the deliberation as a structured, concerted activity. The AA. show 4 stages in the use of the term justice as it is embedded in jurors practical reasoning.

Social Control and the Management of “Personal” Space in Shopping Malls:

This study concerns behaviors of persons in planned spaces, namely, enclosed shopping malls, with particular interest in practices conducive to social control in those settings. As an ethnomethodological investigation, it addresses lived social experiences of actors in these sites and not only the deliberate agendas of security firms. Its focus is how persons orient to design elements of shopping malls—corridors, furniture, and flooring—and how these design features are construable as “players” in those contexts. The author examines how design can militate techniques of social-interactional management produced by actors themselves, sometimes unforeseen in architects’ or designers’ plans. This research suggests a broadening of the notion of social control beyond formal and informal human sources to include the physical features of spaces, spaces like shopping malls, and not only of prisons or similar institutions. This study advises that inanimate objects and the spaces that comprise them are informative for and relevant to behaviors of human interactants.

The interpersonal management of crying among survivors of stroke

This study concerns the social‐interactional consequences of crying among survivors of stroke. The episodes of crying analyzed here took place during interviews including the patients, the patients’ spouses, and an interviewer. This investigation innovates on past studies within the sociology of emotions by concentrating on the interpersonal dimension of emotional displays of persons with brain damage. This study also contributes to research on stroke patients’ “pathological crying” from the field of neuropsychology because it concentrates on the social, and not only the neurological or otherwise individual‐level, nature of such crying. We first present overviews of both the sociology of emotions and the neuropsychology of poststroke emotionalism and address how our study contributes to both fields. We then discuss our participants and method of analysis and finally present our findings with respect to the techniques of the management of crying exhibited by the stroke patients’ interlocutors as well as by...