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New Directions in Membership Categorisation Analysis
Series: - Studies in Pragmatics, Volume: 28
Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) developed as a refocusing of Harvey Sacks’ original analyses of categories, devices, and sequence in talk-in-interaction. In building empirically an understanding of membership categorisation practices as ‘culture-in-action’, MCA, and this collection, opens up an attention to categorisation practices, in all their forms, as means of doing ethnomethodology and sociology. Indeed, MCA has become a prominent methodological and analytic approach across the social sciences and a range of topics of study as a powerful form of ethnomethodologically grounded inquiry. The aim of this collection is to showcase the cutting edge of MCA research and future new directions.
William Housley is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University.
Richard Fitzgerald is Associate Dean (Research) and Professor of Communication at the University of Macau.
Terry S.H. Au-Yeung is a sociologist and interdisciplinary researcher in policing and video research. His methods is grounded in ethnomethodology, especially Sackian methodological thinkings, and a critical engagement with the conception of time.
Robin James Smith is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. He has studied categorisation practices and their accomplishment in a range of settings, and their relation to mobilities and spatiality. He is also Visiting Professor at the Univeristy of Witwatersrand.
Richard Fitzgerald is Associate Dean (Research) and Professor of Communication at the University of Macau.
Terry S.H. Au-Yeung is a sociologist and interdisciplinary researcher in policing and video research. His methods is grounded in ethnomethodology, especially Sackian methodological thinkings, and a critical engagement with the conception of time.
Robin James Smith is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. He has studied categorisation practices and their accomplishment in a range of settings, and their relation to mobilities and spatiality. He is also Visiting Professor at the Univeristy of Witwatersrand.
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 New Directions in Membership Categorisation Analysis
Richard Fitzgerald, William Housley, Robin James Smith and Terry S.H. Au-Yeung
2 Going Non-Categorial: The Work of Technically-Accurate-Category-Neutral Descriptions in Responding to Accusations
Robin James Smith
3 Speaking to the Crowd, Speaking on behalf of the Crowd, Speaking with the Crowd?
Maintaining and Revolutionising Resistance of the Policeable Omnirelevance Device During the Sarah Everard Vigil
Terry S.H. Au-Yeung and Richard Fitzgerald
4 Characterising Astronomy Communication Sessions: Topical Contextures and Partitioning Activities
Andrew P. Carlin, Joana B.V. Marques and Ricardo Moutinho
5 Methods of Measurement and Membership as a Smoker or Drinker
The Epistemics of Counting and Categorization
Timothy Halkowski
6 Socializing Gender at the Dinner Table
Hansun Zhang Waring, Nadja Tadic and Elizabeth Reddington
7 Mums Telling Racism in Mumsnet
Yarong Xie
8 ‘I’m a Parent Too’: The Relevance of Categories in Professionals’ Self-Disclosures in State Bureaucratic Service Interaction
Marie Flinkfeldt
9 Cultural Differences in Action
Japanese Audiovisual Translation of Category-Based Humour in American Sitcoms
Ryo Okazawa
10 Doing M(Eme)CA
Exploring Categorial Practices at the Intersection of Face-to-Face In-situ and Online Post-factum Use
Natalie Flint, Jack B. Joyce and Linda Walz
11 Mundane Civics, Situated Digital Broadcast and Membership Categorisation Analysis
William Housley, Patrik Dahl and Jonathan Ablitt
Index
Notes on Contributors
1 New Directions in Membership Categorisation Analysis
Richard Fitzgerald, William Housley, Robin James Smith and Terry S.H. Au-Yeung
Part 1
2 Going Non-Categorial: The Work of Technically-Accurate-Category-Neutral Descriptions in Responding to Accusations
Robin James Smith
3 Speaking to the Crowd, Speaking on behalf of the Crowd, Speaking with the Crowd?
Maintaining and Revolutionising Resistance of the Policeable Omnirelevance Device During the Sarah Everard Vigil
Terry S.H. Au-Yeung and Richard Fitzgerald
4 Characterising Astronomy Communication Sessions: Topical Contextures and Partitioning Activities
Andrew P. Carlin, Joana B.V. Marques and Ricardo Moutinho
Part 2
5 Methods of Measurement and Membership as a Smoker or Drinker
The Epistemics of Counting and Categorization
Timothy Halkowski
6 Socializing Gender at the Dinner Table
Hansun Zhang Waring, Nadja Tadic and Elizabeth Reddington
7 Mums Telling Racism in Mumsnet
Yarong Xie
8 ‘I’m a Parent Too’: The Relevance of Categories in Professionals’ Self-Disclosures in State Bureaucratic Service Interaction
Marie Flinkfeldt
Part 3
9 Cultural Differences in Action
Japanese Audiovisual Translation of Category-Based Humour in American Sitcoms
Ryo Okazawa
10 Doing M(Eme)CA
Exploring Categorial Practices at the Intersection of Face-to-Face In-situ and Online Post-factum Use
Natalie Flint, Jack B. Joyce and Linda Walz
11 Mundane Civics, Situated Digital Broadcast and Membership Categorisation Analysis
William Housley, Patrik Dahl and Jonathan Ablitt
Index
The book is primarily aimed at advanced undergraduates, research students and MCA researchers. The book will appeal across the social sciences as well as through engagement with individual chapters.