When people argue they routinely challenge the opinions, views, and attitudes of one another, they seek to cast the other as the aggressor or party at fault, and otherwise exert social control. This article illustrates how members work to hamper challenges, evade control or avoid being negatively characterized by systematically blocking access to a turn in the third position and stopping their opponent’s agenda. Examining 100 hours of public disputes (public transport, protestor interactions and radio call-ins) in varieties of English, I use membership categorization analysis and conversation analysis to unpack resistance as part of the structural organization of disputes. I identify two methods of resisting an agenda: (1) passively, whereby a responsive turn stalls the progressivity of the interaction, and (2) actively, whereby a responsive turn disaligns to outrightly suspend the progressivity of the interaction. I discuss how resistance sequentially unfolds across sequential positions, and as an interactional phenomenon which solves the trouble of a challenge. Overall, this article contributes to social interaction research on resistance, public disputes and how social order is constituted in and through talk-in-interaction.

当人们争辩说他们经常挑战彼此的意见、观点和态度时，他们试图将对方视为侵略者或有过错的一方，并以其他方式施加社会控制。本文说明了成员如何通过系统地阻止进入第三个位置的转弯并阻止对手的议程来阻碍挑战、逃避控制或避免被负面描述。检查 100 小时的各种英语公共纠纷（公共交通、抗议者互动和无线电呼入），我使用成员分类分析和对话分析来解开作为纠纷结构组织的一部分的阻力。我确定了两种抵制议程的方法：（1）被动地，即响应性转向阻碍互动的进展；（2）积极地，从而响应性转向不协调以完全暂停交互的进行性。我讨论了阻力如何在连续的位置上依次展开，以及作为一种解决挑战麻烦的交互现象。总体而言，本文有助于社会互动研究，包括抵抗、公共纠纷以及社会秩序是如何在互动中以及通过互动中构建的。