10 - Conclusion

Summary

The final chapter discusses the results of the analyses in light of the proposed conceptual and analytical framework for the study of sensoriality in social interaction. The conclusion provides for an integrated view of the sensorial moments analyzed in the previous chapters and highlights their systematicity in terms of methodic accomplishments of the participants within specific and consequential sequential environments. The sensorial qualities sensoriallydiscovered, explored and recognized as well as the sensorial access making them possible, be in terms of sight, touch, smell, or taste, are made relevant within specific courses of action. This reveals the deep praxeological and interactional organization of sensoriality, which concerns both its situated character within the unfolding of the activity and also the minimal details of a body bending over the obejct to smell, of the tongue exploring the mouth, of the quick and repeated palpation movements of the hands. The book reveals both how these sensorial practices are carefully formatted and how these details are made witnessable and observable for others, securing their intersubjectivity. Far from being a private interiorized neurophysiological process, sensoriality is a strongly social, intersubjective, interactional web of practices.