A life management session: ethnomethodological notes about a captivated audience

Abstract

This paper presents a detailed ethnomethodological description of a Life Management Master Class as an example of a profession related to captivated audiences. Firstly, the ordered succession of events (jokes, dramatizations, videos etc.) through the ethnomethodological alternates of the session is expounded. Then, an analitycal classification of strategies applied by the speaker to connect with the public is proposed. The last section deals with the conclusions and some possible lines of development on this kind of studies, within the specific field of motivational conferences and in the broader ground of professions related to captivated audiences