'Culture in Action' crystallizes an under-acknowledged tension among conversation analysts?This is a far more sophisticated and though-provoking collection than a scan of the index might suggest.

- Andrew Carlin, University College of Dublin, Ireland, Discourse Studies

<i>'Culture in Action' crystallizes an under-acknowledged tension among conversation analysts…This is a far more sophisticated and though-provoking collection than a scan of the index might suggest.</i>

- Andrew Carlin, University College of Dublin, Ireland, Discourse Studies

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. The studies show that category use is occasional, that culture is always internal to action; accordingly sociology's key theoretical problems and substantive areas are re-specified in terms of members' methods of membership categorization. This is the first collection of original, unpublished studies by internationally renowned practitioners of ethnomethodology of members' uses of the descriptive resources of language to describe persons. Co-published with The International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis.
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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

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Product details

ISBN
9780761805847
Published
1996-12-26
Publisher
University Press of America
Weight
308 gr
Height
232 mm
Width
144 mm
Thickness
15 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
193

Biographical note

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.