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 This is the first collection of original, unpublished studies by internationally renowned practitioners of ethnomethodology of members' uses of the descriptive resources of language to describe persons.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 0761805842   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780761805847 (What's this?)   Co_publisher The International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Publisher University Press of America   Weight (grammes) 308 Imprint University Press of America   Published in Lanham, MD Format Paperback   Series ISSN 4 Publication date 26 Dec 1996   Series title Studies in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Series Library of Congress 96046051   Height (mm) 232 DEWEY 302.346   Width (mm) 144 DEWEY edition DC21   Spine width (mm) 15 Pages 193   Academic level General

		Acknowledgments
		Authors
Ch. 1		Membership Categorization Analysis: An Introduction by Stephen Hester and Peter Eglin		1
Ch. 2		The Reflexive Constitution of Category, Predicate and Context in Two Settings by Stephen Hester and Peter Eglin		25
Ch. 3		Some General Reflections on 'Categorization' and 'Sequence' in the Analysis of Conversation by Rod Watson		49
Ch. 4		Ticketing Rules: Categorization and Moral Ordering in a School Staff Meeting by Carolyn D. Baker		77
Ch. 5		Lies, Recollections and Categorical Judgements in Testimony by Michael Lynch and David Bogen		99
Ch. 6		Narrative Intelligibility and Membership Categorization in a Television Commercial by David Francis and Christopher Hart		123
Ch. 7		Conclusion: Membership Categorization Analysis and Sociology by Stephen Hester and Peter Eglin		153
		Notes		164
		Bibliography		175
		Index		188

'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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