Culture in Action

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 This is the first collection of original, unpublished studies by internationally renowned practitioners of ethnomethodology of members' uses of the descriptive resources of language to describe persons.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

ISBN 0761805834   Volumes 001 ISBN13 9780761805830 (What's this?)   Co_publisher The International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Publisher University Press of America   Weight (grammes) 440 Imprint University Press of America   Published in Lanham, MD Format Hardback   Series title Studies in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Series Publication date 01 Dec 1996   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress P95.45.C85   Width (mm) 154 DEWEY 302.346   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly Pages 193

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

'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 Discourse Studies '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 Discourse Studies

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