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Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) developed as a refocusing of Harvey Sacks’ original analyses of categories, devices, and sequence in talk-in-interaction. In building empirically an understanding of membership categorisation practices as ‘culture-in-action’, MCA, and this collection, opens up an attention to categorisation practices, in all their forms, as means of doing ethnomethodology and sociology. Indeed, MCA has become a prominent methodological and analytic approach across the social sciences and a range of topics of study as a powerful form of ethnomethodologically grounded inquiry. The aim of this collection is to showcase the cutting edge of MCA research and future new directions.
Price: $136.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Pragmatics
Publication Date:
16 July 2026
ISBN: 9789004751088
Format: Hardcover
William Housley is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University.
Richard Fitzgerald is Associate Dean (Research) and Professor of Communication at the University of Macau.
Terry S.H. Au-Yeung is a sociologist and interdisciplinary researcher in policing and video research. His methods is grounded in ethnomethodology, especially Sackian methodological thinkings, and a critical engagement with the conception of time.
Robin James Smith is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. He has studied categorisation practices and their accomplishment in a range of settings, and their relation to mobilities and spatiality. He is also Visiting Professor at the Univeristy of Witwatersrand.