Plunkett2009
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Plunkett2009 |
| Author(s) | Reece Plunkett |
| Title | Fashioning the feasible: Categorisation and social change |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Membership Categorization Analysis, Social Change |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Australian Journal of Communication |
| Volume | 36 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 23–44 |
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Abstract
In his 'Hotrodder' paper, Harvey Sacks (1979, p. 12) remarks on 'the important problems of social change' and argues for looking at the constitution and use of sets of categories as a means of investigating these problems. This paper investigates the beginning of a public lesbian and gay movement in Perth in the early 1970s, especially the category work undertaken by the newly formed Campaign Against Moral Persecution (CAMP). It traces CAMP's deployment of a new category of person and attendant predicates and the way in which this new category was responsive to a practical problem facing the nascent movement-how to 'go public'? At the time, lesbians and gay men had almost no public profile, except as the 'mad, bad, or sad' of medical, legal, and religious discourse. The paper shows that and how CAMP's move was accountably responsive to this problem and concludes with some remarks on the value of membership categorisation analysis for investigating social change.
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