| Place of Publication | Washington DC, USA : |
| Publisher's Name | International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis/ University Press of America, |
| Date of Publication | 1997 |
| Extent | viii, 196p. |
| Other Details | bibliography, indexed, notes |
| Series Responsibility - Personal | Psathas, George (editorial chair) |
| Series Statement Title | Studies in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis |
| Series Volume or Part | No. 4 |
| Item Descriptor | Addressing sociology's classical questions by developing that strand of ethnomethodological inquiry dealing with membership categorisation. Providing detailed studies of members' use of membership categories across various settings from the O.J. Simpson trial, via T.V. 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 categorisation |
| Formatted Content Note | Sections include - Membership categorization analysis - an introduction/ Stephen Hester and Peter Eglin; The reflexive constitution of category, predicate and context in two settings/ Stephen Hester and Peter Eglin; Some general reflections on 'categorization' and 'sequence' in the analysis of conversation/ Rod Watson; Ticketing rules - categorization and moral ordering in a school staff meeting/ Carolyn D Baker; Lies, recollections and categorical judgements in testimony/ Michael Lynch and David Bogen; Narrative intelligibility and membership categorization in a television commercial/ David Francis and Christopher Hart; and Conclusion - membership categorization analysis and sociology/ Stephen Hester and Peter Eglin
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| Level Content-Audience | Undergraduate |
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| Subject Entry | Conversation analysis
Discourse analysis
Ethnomethodology |
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