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 TV commercials and news headlines, to school staff and referral meetings.
This collection of new studies in ethnomethodology addresses sociology's classical questions by developing that strand of ethnomethodological inquiry ...
The Montreal Massacre: A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis adopts an ethnomethodological viewpoint to analyze how the murder of women by a lone gunman at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal was presented to the public via media publication over a two-week period in 1989. All that the public came to know and understand of the murders, the murderer, and the victims was constituted in the description and commentaries produced by the media. What the murders became, therefore, was an expression of the methods used to describe and evaluate them, and central to these methods was...
The Montreal Massacre: A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis adopts an ethnomethodological viewpoint to analyze how the murder of w...
"Who has the right to know?" asks Jean-Francois Lyotard. "Who has the right to eat?" asks Peter Madaka Wanyama. This book asks: "what does it mean to be a responsible academic in a 'northern' university given the incarnate connections between the university's operations and death and suffering elsewhere?" Through studies of the "neoliberal university" in Ontario, the "imperial university" in relation to East Timor, the "chauvinist university" in relation to El Salvador, and the "gendered university" in relation to the Montreal Massacre, the author challenges himself and the reader to practice...
"Who has the right to know?" asks Jean-Francois Lyotard. "Who has the right to eat?" asks Peter Madaka Wanyama. This book asks: "what does it mean to ...
Hester and Eglin s A Sociology of Crime has an outstanding reputation for its distinctive and systematic contribution to the criminological literature. Through detailed examples and analysis, it shows how crime is a product of processes of criminalisation constituted through the interactional and organizational use of language.
In this welcome second edition, the book reviews andevaluates the current state of criminological theory from this "grammatical" perspective. It maintains and develops its critical and subversive stance but greatly widens its theoretical range,...
Hester and Eglin s A Sociology of Crime has an outstanding reputation for its distinctive and systematic contribution to the criminological ...
Hester and Eglin s A Sociology of Crime has an outstanding reputation for its distinctive and systematic contribution to the criminological literature. Through detailed examples and analysis, it shows how crime is a product of processes of criminalisation constituted through the interactional and organizational use of language.
In this welcome second edition, the book reviews andevaluates the current state of criminological theory from this "grammatical" perspective. It maintains and develops its critical and subversive stance but greatly widens its theoretical range,...
Hester and Eglin s A Sociology of Crime has an outstanding reputation for its distinctive and systematic contribution to the criminological ...
