Culture in Action

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.

• Chapter 1 Membership Categorization Analysis: An IntroductionChapter 2 The Reflexive Constitution of Category, Predicate and Context in Two SettingsChapter 3 Some General Reflections on 'Categorization' and 'Sequence' in the Analysis of ConversationChapter 4 Ticketing Rules: Categorization and Moral Ordering in a School Staff MeetingChapter 5 Lies, Recollections and Categorical Judgments in TestimonyChapter 6 Narrative Intelligibility and Membership Categorization in a Television CommercialChapter 7 Conclusion: Membership Categorization Analysis and Sociology

'Culture in Action' crystallizes an under-acknowledged tension among conversation analysts?This is a far more sophisticated and though-provoking collection than a scan of the index might suggest.