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Volume 12, Issue 3
  • ISSN 1018-2101
  • E-ISSN: 2406-4238

Abstract

This article examines the distribution of relationships of power and authority as an activity in gossip sessions among members of a community in Pohnpei, Micronesia. The position of Bourdieu, that the interactionist approach cannot elucidate important aspects of the sharing of power in society, is used as a starting place to examine ways in which interactants in everyday conversations manipulate and organize gendered identities and the entitlements of certain classes of individuals to particular types of power.

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Keyword(s): Ethnomethodology; Gender; Gossip; Micronesia; Social inequality
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