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of ‘shared evaluations’ of norms is frequently misunderstood as meaning shared ap-
preciation for and use of a standard variant. Neither of these factors can be reviewed in
detail here. See Patrick (2002) for more details.
4. Garfinkel’s (1967) discussion of the pre-operative transsexual Agnes, highlighted the
importance of biography for claiming a particular social identity. Sidnell (2003) gives
a very nice example of how this notion can be elaborated using the methods of con-
versation analysis.
5. The teams refer to themselves as ‘girls’ and ‘boys’, see example (1) above.
6. It does not imply that definitions giving primacy to attitudes are worse; it simply ac-
knowledges that in a short review article they are tangential.
7. This refers to John Gray’s (1992) bestselling book Men are from Mars, Women are
from Venus which dichotomizes male and female interactional styles representing
them virtually as polar opposites.

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