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In the current chapter, we seek to document how differences in practice across different occasions can in some cases evidence change in the underlying “machinery” of sense production and, in this way, demonstrate a change in member competence. We track two students, Dana and Stephanie, as they work through a mathematical story problem, first in the second grade and then again in the third. We argue that changes over time to the “machinery” of sense production constitute changes in what counts as competence and studying such changes represents a valid approach to producing a “developmental sociology”. And, in this way, we seek to show how change across time can be studied in an ethnomethodologically informed fashion.
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The Kenilworth corpus can be accessed at: http://videomosaic.org/.
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The full set of transcription conventions is described in Jefferson (2004). In brief, special brackets are used to mark the onset of overlap between transcribed elements (i.e., turns at talk or other transcribed conduct). Numbers enclosed in single parentheses represent periods of silence measured to a tenth of a second. Standard punctuation marks such as periods and question marks are used to denote delivery with falling (or rising) intonation. Colons are used to display sound stretching. Text enclosed between degree signs represents talk delivered at diminished volume. Annotations supplied by the transcriber are enclosed in double parentheses.
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Transcripts and video are also available at this persistent URL: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/46062/
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Transcripts and video are also available at this persistent URL: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/46051/
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It was noted earlier that the students effected a shift in vocabulary within the fragments, referring to the shirt/pants pairings as “combinations” instead of “outfits” (see also [Episode 2: 3:34;16]). Like the disappearance of further discussion of fashion considerations in the third grade, this terminological shift reflected a shared orientation to extracting relevant features of the story problem from the irrelevant, though, given that they employ the altered vocabulary in both episodes, it did not represent a documented change in practice.
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Koschmann, T., Sigley, R., Zemel, A., Maher, C. (2018). How the “Machinery” of Sense Production Changes Over Time. In: Pekarek Doehler, S., Wagner, J., González-Martínez, E. (eds) Longitudinal Studies on the Organization of Social Interaction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57007-9_6
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