Membership Categorisation Analysis
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In this article, I analyze the religiosity of Bompietro of Bologna as reported in the register of the inquisition of Bologna, 1291-1310. I attempt to show that Bompietro’s religiosity was above all practical; its doctrinal content seems... more
This is an exciting addition to the dynamic, multidisciplinary field of membership categorization analysis. Bringing together the biggest names in MCA this landmark publication provides a contemporary analysis of the field and a platform... more
Tato kapitola se zaměřuje na první osobu množného čísla a jiná kolektivní označení, kterými odkazujeme k různým sociálním skupinám a kategoriím. K čemu vlastně zájmena v plurálu a kolektiv-ní označení referují? Co zakládají, reprodukují a... more
The article examines the various ways in which 'solidarity' is invoked and signified through narrative and categorial devices in a political debate following the UK's vote to leave the EU in 2016. Analysing a floor debate in the European... more
This book is devoted to the reintroduction of the remarkable approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks. Sacks’s original analyses – concerned with the lived detail of action and language-in-interaction, discoverable in... more
Welche Ungleichheiten und Konflikte spalten queere, feministische und LSBTIQ-Bewegungen? Um dieser Frage nachzugehen untersuchte die folgende Abschlussarbeit Konstruktionen von Zugehörigkeiten in queerer studentischer Szene. Durch eine... more
Καταγράφονται και αναλύονται διεξοδικά, μέσα από το εθνομεθοδολογικό πλαίσιο της Ανάλυσης Συμμετοχικής Κατηγοριοποίησης/Ανάλυσης της Συνομιλίας, δημόσιες επιτελέσεις και αποδόσεις φύλου οι οποίες (ανα)παράγουν την καθημερινή σεξιστική... more
This article examines how a group of Tanzanian journalists co-construct their identities as members of the same culture by producing talk that aligns them with several shared membership categories (Sacks 1972, 1979, 1992). The speakers... more
This thesis presents a systematic discourse analysis of sustained antagonistic debate—called 'drama'—on the video-sharing website, YouTube. Following a two-year observation of a YouTube community of practice discussing Christianity and... more
The Internet represents an abundant source material for linguistic research, which continues to pose new challenges and opportunities on how language is used by its speakers. Its personal naming system, for example, has remained largely... more
Οι αντιλήψεις των παιδιών σχετικά με την ταυτότητα του φύλου τους επηρεάζονται από τα πρότυπα που υπάρχουν στα πλαίσια ανάπτυξής τους, όπως είναι η οικογένεια, το σχολείο, το φιλικό τους περιβάλλον και τα Μέσα Μαζικής Επικοινωνίας. Τα... more
The traditional conceptualization of identity as an inherent ‘essence’ has been challenged by contemporary theoretical paradigms that view it as an interactional achievement. Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis as combined with... more
This book is devoted to the re-introduction of the remarkably original approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks. We intend the volume as an incitement to experts to return to the original lectures of Sacks with fresh... more
This paper uses membership categorization analysis to illustrate how five women invoke multiple female gender and sexuality identity categories in personal narratives to construct the device of womanhood. The five racially diverse women... more
Despite Harvey Sacks' death over 40 years ago, his work continues to be a major influence gaining ever more attention across the social sciences. Although he published relatively few papers during his lifetime, Sacks' work was central to... more
"This paper focuses on how self-presentation practices in a round table are treated by participants as a context within which they orient their actions. In this framework, identity is inseparable from speech practices, patterns of... more
The Gail Jefferson archive have now been completed and is available at UCLA. The archive consists of 36 Boxes, the Title of the archive is Gail Jefferson Papers (Collection 2319). Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research... more
(Unpublished doctoral thesis) The importance of the topic of linguistic diversity is more patent than ever when considering within the framework of the increasing numbers of newly arrived students to the Catalonian schools. Considering... more
Researchers in ethnomethodology have found that accounts of action are not identical to actions themselves. This investigation uses video technology to examine the enactment of membership, distinct from the description of membership. This... more
Introduction This book is about an ethnomethodological approach to the study of talk-in-interaction that is gaining wider popularity and interest from across the social sciences. Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) refers to the... more
"ABSTRACT: Within conversation analysis and membership categorisation analysis, the warrant for any instance of analytic interest is always the demonstrable relevance and consequentiality of the phenomena to the interactants.... more
Programm einer Nachwuchstagung mit Präsentationen , die u.a. mittels CA, MCA und mediendialogischen Netzwerk Diskursprozesse erschließen. Die Tagung ist Ergebnis eines 2-semestrigen Methodenseminars an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
During the course of this article the themes of public accountability, government policy, and interaction in media settings are examined. In particular, we examine empirical instances of media discourse as a means of exploring the use of... more
This paper examines the way the host of a UK day time television talk show, The JeremyKyleShow, generates entertainment through framing guests’ stories using membership categories and category-based moral evaluations. The analysis draws... more
Over the past 30 years, studies of culture have become increasingly prominent - some would say dominant (see, e.g., Alexander, Jacobs & Smith 2015) - within and across social science and arts and humanities disciplines in Europe and North... more
The aim of this research is to examine the lived work of a radio broadcast. Within this two main aims are undertaken: the first methodological the second analytic. The methodological discussion takes the form of a critical examination of... more
In this article, we examine the extent to which membership categorization analysis (MCA) can inform an understanding of reasoning within the public domain where morality, policy and cultural politics are visible (Smith and Tatalovich,... more
How teachers and students work together through discourse to construct their understanding of the context they live and work in will influence, in many different ways, the interaction within their classrooms. This book describes an... more
One challenge for conversation analytic research on identity is to demonstrate that and how identities are made relevant and consequential for the participants of an interaction. Drawing on Harvey Sacks's work on membership categorization... more
In everyday interaction, subtle manifestations of sexism often pass unacknowledged and become internalised and thus perceived as “natural” conduct. The introduction of new vocabularies for referrin...
A sociology of crime, second edition, by Stephen Hester and Peter Eglin, Abingdon, New York, Routledge, 2017
The number of adolescent children accompanying their immigrant parents to Canada has steadily increased since the 1990s. Much of the applied linguistics literature on these so called “Generation 1.5” youth (Rumbaut & Ima, 1987; Harklau,... more
Cette année, le séminaire vise à donner un aperçu assez complet des différentes méthodes d’enquête qui se sont développées au sein de l’ethnométhodologie, sous l’impulsion initiale de ses fondateurs : Harold Garfinkel et Harvey Sacks.... more
In this essay, I discuss one direction for developing a systematic, data-grounded analysis of categories in talk-in-interaction. This framework is developed around two main analytical foci. The first examines how the participants... more
This paper examines instances of swearing in live television broadcasts. While some cable television shows routinely involve swearing without censorship and recorded shows may include swearing “bleeped out,” our interest is in instances... more
"Abstract The aim of this research is to examine the lived work of a radio broadcast. Within this two main aims are undertaken: the first methodological the second analytic. The methodological discussion takes the form of a critical... more
Abstract On December 2, 2015, Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik attacked a Christmas gathering in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people and wounding 22. On December 4, the news media were granted access to the couple’s home by the... more