Culture in Action - Couverture souple

Hester, Stephen

 
9780761805847: Culture in Action

Synopsis

This collection of new studies in ethnomethodology addresses sociology's classical questions by developing that strand of ethnomethodological inquiry dealing with membership categorization. This book provides detailed studies of members' use of membership categories across various settings from the O.J. Simpson trial, via T.V. commercials and news headlines, to school staff and referral meetings. The studies show that category use is occasional, that culture is always internal to action; accordingly sociology's key theoretical problems and substantive areas are re-specified in terms of members' methods of membership categorization. This is the first collection of original, unpublished studies by internationally renowned practitioners of ethnomethodology of members' uses of the descriptive resources of language to describe persons. Co-published with The International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis.

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À propos de l'auteur

Stephen Hester is Senior Lecturer in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Wales in Bangor, the United Kingdom. Peter Eglin is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780761805830: Culture in Action: Studies in Membership Categorization Analysis 1997

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0761805834 ISBN 13 :  9780761805830
Editeur : University Press of America, 1996
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