Description
This is an exciting addition to the dynamic, multidisciplinary field of membership categorization analysis. Bringing together the biggest names in MCA this landmark publication provides a contemporary analysis of the field and a platform for emerging researchers and students to build upon.
The book sets out the current methodological developments of MCA highlighting its analytic strength – particularly when examining social identity and social knowledge. It provides a sophisticated tool of qualitative analysis and draws from a wide range of empirical studies provided by global scholars.
The culmination of years of international research this agenda-setting text will be essential reading for academics and advanced students using membership categorization across the social sciences; particularly in media and communication studies, sociology, psychology, education, political science and linguistics.
Table of Contents
Chapter1: Introduction to Membership Categorization Analysis - William Housley & Richard Fitzgerald
Chapter2: De-Reifiying Categories - Rod Watson
Chapter 3: Prospective and Retrospective Categorization: Category proffers and inferences in social interaction and rolling news media - Elizabeth Stokoe & Frederick Attenborough
Chapter 4: Categorization Work in the Courtroom: The ‘foundational’ character of membership categorization analysis - Christian Licoppe
Chapter 5: Challenging Normativity: re-appraising category, bound, tied and predicated features - Edward Reynolds & Richard Fitzgerald
Chapter 6: Omnirelevance in Technologized Interaction: Couples coping with video calling distortions - Sean Rintel
Chapter7: Membership Categorization and Methodological Reasoning in Research Team Interaction - William Housley & Robin James Smith
