Categories in Social Interaction [Hardcover]

Chapter 0: Prologue: Why Categories Matter Chapter 1: An Introduction to Categories in Social Interaction Chapter 2: Approaching Membership Categorization Chapter 3: Methodological Principles, Practices, and Challenges?Chapter 4: Forming and Making Sense of Actions Chapter 5: Referring to and Addressing People?Chapter 6: Taking Turns at Talking and Selecting Next Speakers?Chapter 7: Organizing Sequences of Action?Chapter 8: Managing Troubles in Speaking, Hearing, and Understanding?Chapter 9: Managing Knowledge, Experience, and Entitlement?Chapter 10: What Now and What Next? Domain-Specific Applications of Categorization Practices

This seminal work explores how interaction structures and practices systematically shape and challenge social categories, highlighting their role and significance in social life. The book investigates such matters by providing a new framework for integrating conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis.

This book investigates the situated (re)production of categories, from the most mundane and unremarkable to those most strongly associated with power and privilege. By examining the reciprocal relationships between categorial phenomena and the basic structures and practices of social interaction, the book provides a new framework for integrating conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis.

Across its ten chapters, the book describes a conversation analytic approach to studying categories and categorization, charts the development and history of membership categorization analysis, and addresses core methodological challenges and practices associated with using this approachlã+