Harvey Sacks, membership categorization and social media

On Sacks ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 208-220
Author(s):  
William Housley
KWALON ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ineke Graumans ◽  
Harry van den Berg

Harvey Sacks, die vooral bekend is als grondlegger van de conversatie-analyse, heeft daarnaast in de jaren zeventig van de vorige eeuw ook de basis gelegd voor een veelbelovende theoretisch-methodische benadering van sociale categorisering: Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA) (Sacks 1979, 1992). Die benadering heeft lange tijd weinig aandacht gekregen, maar staat sinds de jaren negentig van de vorige eeuw opnieuw in de belangstelling. Een belangrijk doel van kwalitatief onderzoek is het reconstrueren van de belevingswereld van mensen en groepen. MCA is een methode die daar bij uitstek geschikt voor is (Lepper, 2000). De belangrijkste redenen daarvoor zijn dat MCA gebaseerd is op een strikt participantgerichte (emic) benadering van alledaagse gesprekken en dat het een zeer systematische werkwijze presenteert.


2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Silverman

In this response, I examine the ambiguity about the status of Membership Categorization Device Analysis (MCDA) in the work of Harvey Sacks. The ‘five guiding principles’ of MCDA that Stokoe enunciates serve as a crucial guide to future research. In what follows, I give some further examples of data analysis which, I believe, supports both her strong and weaker claims.


1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Coulter

SummaryHow are we to conceive of the relationship(s) between classical depictions of „macrosocial“ phenomena and the empirically observable world of situated human practices and interactions? Sociologists since Weber have addressed this problem in a variety of ways, but persistent conceptual difficulties remain largely unresolved. In this discussion, the fundamental issue of the „observability“ of the „macrosocial“ will be the focus of analytical attention. In what ways do the putatively „macro“ phenomena become instantiated in, and in other ways observable through, practical human actions and interactions? Are „macro“ phenomena best construed as „containers“ of local, human practices, perhaps exerting independent „effects“ upon them? Or are „macro“ phenomena brought to life by, and thus made occasionally relevant in and through, the practices of people in analyseable ways? In pursuing the latter possibility, some of the work of Harvey Sacks on membership categorization practices is found to be useful.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 474-495
Author(s):  
Mônica Chaves ◽  
Adriana Braga

One of the main aspects of public debate in Brazil in the period that preceded the 2018 presidential elections was the dissemination of false stories via social media and messaging apps. Disinformation, misinformation, and mal-information – phenomena that comprehend elements such as wrongful, out of context, distorted and fabricated information, among others – were a major concern in the election, highlighted by the number of false stories debunked by independent fact-checkers. In the 20-day period between the two rounds of the presidential election, six fact-checking websites posted 228 verifications of false stories disseminated on social media and/or messaging apps, covering a range of about 132 different topics. This article aims to analyze the categorizations enunciated in their discourses. In order to do so, the methodological perspective utilized was the Membership Categorization Analysis, affiliated with the tradition of Ethnomethodology.A disseminação de histórias falsas em aplicativos de mensagens e redes sociais da internet foi um dos elementos centrais da conversação civil no Brasil no período que antecedeu as eleições presidenciais brasileiras em 2018. A preocupação com a disseminação da desinformação – fenômeno que se compõe, entre outros elementos, por informações erradas, descontextualizadas, distorcidas ou falsificadas – se refletiu na quantidade de histórias falsas verificadas e desmentidas por agências independentes de checagens de fatos. No período de 20 dias entre as votações de primeiro e segundo turnos das eleições, as seis principais agências do país publicaram 228 verificações de histórias falsas disseminadas em redes sociais da internet ou aplicativos de troca mensagens, referentes a 132 diferentes pautas. Neste estudo foram analisadas as categorizações enunciadas nos discursos dessas histórias falsas, com a utilização da Análise de Categorização de Pertencimento (ACP), ferramenta teórico-metodológica de origem na Etnometodologia.La propagación de historias falsas en servicios de mensajería instantánea y redes sociales de Internet fue uno de los elementos centrales de las conversaciones civiles en Brasil durante el periodo previo a las elecciones presidenciales brasileñas en 2018. La preocupación con la diseminación de la desinformación – fenómeno compuesto por informaciones erróneas, descontextualizadas, distorsionadas o falsificadas, entre otros elementos – fue visible en la cantidad de historias falsas verificadas y refutadas por organizaciones de fact-checking. En el período de 20 días entre las votaciones de la primera y segunda vuelta de las elecciones, las seis principales fact-checkers del país publicaron 228 verificaciones de historias falsas difundidas en redes sociales de internet o servicios de mensajería instantánea, relativas a 132 pautas diferentes. Este artículo trata de analizar las categorizaciones enunciadas en los discursos de esas historias falsas con el auxilio del Análisis de Pertenencia Categorial (Membership Categorization Analysis – MCA), herramienta teórico-metodológica que proviene de la Etnometodología.


2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-123
Author(s):  
Andrew L. Roth ◽  
Elizabeth A. Boyd

In the mid-1960s, the late sociologist Harvey Sacks initially developed the concept of “membership categorization devices” as a means of analyzing how people identify, describe, and refer to one another. In his now canonical treatment of a child's story, “The baby cried. The mommy picked it up,” Sacks (1972) explored the possibilities for formal analyses of references to and descriptions of persons, as implemented in written texts and talk-in-interaction.


ASHA Leader ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Clarke
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ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  

As professionals who recognize and value the power and important of communications, audiologists and speech-language pathologists are perfectly positioned to leverage social media for public relations.


2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Jane Anderson
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2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
SALLY KOCH KUBETIN
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