Membership categorisation analysis

Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690 2025. 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, (10.4324/9780429323904-21) Item availability restricted.

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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:	Published
Schools:	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 First Compliant Deposit:	8 April 2025
Date of Acceptance:	27 November 2020
Last Modified:	08 Apr 2025 13:35
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/144469

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