Culture in Action - Studies in Membership Categorization Analysis

This collection of new studies in ethnomethodology addresses sociology's classical questions by developing that strand of ethnomethodological inquiry dealing with membership categorization. This book provides detailed studies of members' use of membership categories across various settings from the O.J. Simpson trial, via TV commercials and news headlines, to school staff and referral meetings.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Membership Categorization Analysis: An Introduction Chapter 2 The Reflexive Constitution of Category, Predicate and Context in Two Settings Chapter 3 Some General Reflections on 'Categorization' and 'Sequence' in the Analysis of Conversation Chapter 4 Ticketing Rules: Categorization and Moral Ordering in a School Staff Meeting Chapter 5 Lies, Recollections and Categorical Judgments in Testimony Chapter 6 Narrative Intelligibility and Membership Categorization in a Television Commercial Chapter 7 Conclusion: Membership Categorization Analysis and Sociology

About the author

Stephen Hester is Senior Lecturer in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Wales in Bangor, the United Kingdom. Peter Eglin is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Eglin, Eglin Peter, Stephen Hester
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.12.1996
• EAN: 9780761805847
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-0584-7
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 232 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 308 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Social and cultural anthropology