Membership Categorisation Analysis

Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690 2022. Membership Categorisation Analysis. Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, 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
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
Date of Acceptance:	27 November 2020
Last Modified:	10 Nov 2022 09:47
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/144469

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