%0 Journal Article %A Keating, Elizabeth %T Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality %D 2002 %J Pragmatics %V 12 %N 3 %P 347-359 %@ 1018-2101 %R https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.12.3.04kea %K Gossip %K Micronesia %K Social inequality %K Gender %K Ethnomethodology %I John Benjamins %X 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. %U https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/prag.12.3.04kea