Culture in Action: Studies in Membership Categorization Analysis (Studies in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis)

Hester, Stephen; Eglin, Peter

ISBN 10: 0761805842 / ISBN 13: 9780761805847

Published by UPA, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Culture in Action: Studies in Membership Categorization Analysis (Studies in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis)
• Publisher: UPA
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761805842
• ISBN 13: 9780761805847
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 10 ounces

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Synopsis

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 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 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 This is the first collection of original, unpublished studies by internationally renowned practitioners of ethnomethodology of members' uses of the descriptive resources of language to describe persons.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.

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.