Telling the code: Instructions for interpretation (Continued)
They were trying to accomplish things in the telling
To create the very social structures they were otherwise apparently just describing
They were actively marking the border between deviance and nondeviance through talk and interaction
"resident recitations of the code...were done in such a way that the residents were not simply describing a set of rules to me, but were also simultaneously sanctioning my conduct by such a recitation"
Wieder realized the code was not a separate and distinct normative structure
Residents used it to account for matters in need of explanation