Book contents
- Sensing in Social Interaction
- Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives
- Sensing in Social Interaction
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Extracts
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Sensoriality in Interaction
- Part II Looking and Knowing
- 3 Looking for a Cheese
- 4 Asking for a Cheese: The Calibration of Looking and Knowing
- Part III Sensing Together
- Part IV Tasting, Assessing, and Making Decisions
- Appendix: Transcription Conventions
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series page
3 - Looking for a Cheese
from Part II - Looking and Knowing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2021
- Sensing in Social Interaction
- Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives
- Sensing in Social Interaction
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Extracts
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Sensoriality in Interaction
- Part II Looking and Knowing
- 3 Looking for a Cheese
- 4 Asking for a Cheese: The Calibration of Looking and Knowing
- Part III Sensing Together
- Part IV Tasting, Assessing, and Making Decisions
- Appendix: Transcription Conventions
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series page
Summary
Entering the gourmet cheese shop, the customer is confronted with dozens and sometimes hundreds of different cheeses. This chapter discusses how the search, identification, and selection of a possible buyable is accomplished, through actions that characterize the beginning of the purchase and that are consequential for the possibility (or not) to engage in a closer sensorial exploration of the materiality of the cheese. The first access to the cheese products is distant, characterized by sighting, looking and starring, within actions that either display the customer knows what they want or not. Chapter 3 shows how customers not knowing what they want look around in the shop asking for advice or/and then adopt a focused look on one product and ask questions about it. These actions constitute a praxeological, interactional and sensorial context that emergently projects the relevance of a closer examination of the materiality of cheese.
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- Sensing in Social InteractionThe Taste for Cheese in Gourmet Shops, pp. 115 - 168Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021