Membership categorization analysis as an important qualitative method in evaluation

Paulsen, Justin

doi:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2018.01.003

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“…Speakers can use this knowledge to position themselves and others in relation to, for example, age categories. MCA is therefore strongly emic and thus requires the analyst to reflect thoroughly on whether and how its categories go beyond social stereotypes (Hester & Francis, 1994; Paulsen, 2018, pp. 138–139).…”

Section: Approaching Social Agementioning

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The coming of age: How do linguists tease apart chronological, biological and social age?

Hejná

Jespersen

2021

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Age is one of the key variables in the field of language variation and change (LVC). The vast majority of experimental work generally views a speaker's date of birth—chronological age—as a good reflection of both their social age, for example, which generation they identify with and how strongly and their biological age, that is, the physiological age of their body. This paper aims to provide the reader with tools to tease apart these three ways of conceptualising the variable of age. It reviews qualitative and quantitative methods from fields adjacent to LVC that will enable linguists of different theoretical interests to tap into biological and social aspects of ageing. In doing so, it provides a practical manual for linguists wishing to work from a more multifaceted understanding of one of the key variables in many linguistic subfields.

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Section: Approaching Social Agementioning

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The coming of age: How do linguists tease apart chronological, biological and social age?

Hejná

Jespersen

2021

Language and Linguist. Compass

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“…Both the MCA and the CA apparatus are employed concurrently, here, as the aim is to explore the interrelation of a sequential phenomenon (repairs) with old-age categorisation. This, however, in my view, does not preclude the possibility of applying MCA -uncoupled from CAas an apparatus for studying social-knowledge-in-action as convincingly done, for example, by Eglin and Hester (2003) and Paulsen (2018).…”

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Repairs and old-age categorisations: interactional and categorisation analysis

Charalambidou

2019

Linguistics Vanguard

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This paper examines the use of self-repairs in ascribing old-age categorisations to self and others in casual interactions among friends. Membership categorisation analysis and conversation analysis are employed to analyse self-recorded, everyday conversations of a group of older Greek Cypriot women with a long interactional history. The interactional organisation of old-age labels, and specifically instances of self-repair of age categorisations, reveal that members orient to old-age categories as hierarchically positioned and inference-rich. Members make relevant a very intricate set of expectations of who can be categorised by whom, with what specific age category term and at which context, partly because other-categorisations can also implicate one’s self-categorisation as old. Sequential and categorisation analyses provide a powerful analytical toolkit for the investigation of participants’ local system of self- and other-ascription of explicit -but also implicit- age identities. It is shown that the combination of membership categorisation analysis and conversation analysis can be extended beyond the analysis of turn-generating categories and can be instrumental in analysing flexible, context-shaped and agentively managed category identifications that also have currency beyond the local interactional occasion.

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“…Membership categorization analysis originated from the work of Harvey Sacks in the 1960s, which focused on examining how people as members of various social communities locally categorize people and their actions on the basis of their mundane, common sense reasoning (Fitzgerald 2015;Housley and Fitzgerald 2015;Paulsen 2018). He was interested in examining the principles and methods that members use when they categorize themselves as well as other people into various membership categories in social situations (Sacks 1972a(Sacks , 1986(Sacks , 1992.…”

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“…According to Sacks (1972bSacks ( , 1992, membership categories can be defined as classifications or social types that are used as means of describing people and making sense of their local, situational actions (see also Hester and Eglin 1997a;Paulsen 2018). Hence, membership categorization is understood as a procedure in which cultural and social constructions are selectively intertwined with situational factors (Fitzgerald, Housley, and Rintel 2017;McLay & Renshaw 2019).…”

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“…Harvey Sacks developed membership categorization analysis in the 1960s to study how people categorize each other in social interaction (Fitzgerald 2015;Housley and Fitzgerald 2015;Lepper 2000). Membership categories are resources for meaning-making and in its basic form, membership categorization means identifying a person as a member of a social category (Freiberg and Freebody 2009;Järviluoma and Roivainen 2003;Paulsen 2018). Even though Sacks (1972bSacks ( , 1992 recognized and acknowledged the role of visual perception in membership categorization from the very beginning, and there are a number of studies using in situ perceptions as well as visual and multimodal materials in this tradition, membership categorization analysis has predominantly been applied to verbal accounts (Fitzgerald 2015;Francis and Hart 1997).…”

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Membership categorization analysis as means of studying person perception

Martikainen

2020

Qualitative Research in Psychology

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Membership categorization analysis focuses on studying how people categorize each other in interaction. Even though the role of observation has been acknowledged within this methodological approach, it has mainly been used to analyze oral and written communication. This study focuses on examining how membership categorization analysis can be applied to person perception. It elucidates the procedure with two examples where students in a vocational upper secondary college in Finland perceived portrait paintings and reflected in writing what kind of teachers the people depicted in them would be. Drawing on the theorization of person perception and membership categorization analysis, the study suggests a model for applying membership categorization analysis in person perception and discusses its relevance to social interaction.

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Membership categorization analysis as an important qualitative method in evaluation

Cited by 11 publications

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The coming of age: How do linguists tease apart chronological, biological and social age?

The coming of age: How do linguists tease apart chronological, biological and social age?

Repairs and old-age categorisations: interactional and categorisation analysis

Membership categorization analysis as means of studying person perception

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