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Categories in social interaction / Kevin A. Whitehead, Elizabeth Stokoe, and Geoffrey Raymond
- Author
- Whitehead, Kevin A.
- Published
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
- Copyright Date
- ©2025
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 398 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators
- Stokoe, Elizabeth and Raymond, Geoffrey
Access Online
- Taylor & Francis: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Summary
- "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. 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 approach. After mapping out the new framework developed in the book, each chapter describes intersections between categorial phenomena and the domains that comprise the infrastructure of social interaction. The book concludes by exploring some applications, interventions, and impacts of understanding categories in ways examined across the preceding chapters, and by considering future avenues for excavating categorial practices in the ordinary, institutional, and technological settings of human social life. With practical guidance on how these methods can be used in research, Categories in Social Interaction is an essential reading for social scientists with a general interest in categories of people and categorizing practices, and especially for practitioners and students of conversation analysis, membership categorization, ethnomethodology, and discursive psychology"--
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781003120599 electronic book
1003120598 electronic book
9781040253533 electronic book
1040253539 electronic book
9781040253595 electronic book
1040253598 electronic book
9780367637651 paperback
9780367637668 hardcover
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