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Membership Categorisation Analysis

Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690 2024. Membership Categorisation Analysis. Carlin, Andrew, Dennis, Alex, Jenkings, K. Neil, Lindwall, Oskar and Mair, Michael, eds. Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology, Abingdon and New York: Routledge,

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Abstract

The central concern of ‘Membership Categorisation Analysis’ (MCA) is the array of categorisation practices observable in naturally-occurring ordinary activities by lay and professional analysts. A central question for MCA is the possibility of social order, handled in and through an attention to the situated, ‘always occasioned’, accomplishment-in-use of categories, category devices, predicates and collectivities. Whilst it is commonplace to narrowly associate MCA with person descriptions, MCA forms an integral element of a ‘live apparatus’ (Housley, 2021) in and through which members organise their activities. MCA is thus the study of the organisation of multi-layered, occasioned, categorial-sequential order as the local grounds of ‘culture-in-action’ (Hester and Eglin, 1997; Housley and Fitzgerald, 2015).

Item Type: Book Section
Date Type: Publication
Status: In Press
Schools: Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367340971
Date of Acceptance: 27 November 2020
Last Modified: 15 Jul 2024 12:55
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/144469

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