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|Announcement Type=Training, Workshop
|Full title=An introduction to Membership Categorisation Analysis 29-30 Nov 2023 - Hybrid
|Short title=IntroMCANov2023
|Short summary=An entry-level Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) training workshop organised by @LivUni will be presented by @Dr_Robin_Smith and hosted by @NCRMUK on the 29-30th November 2023. Attendees can join online or in-person.
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• Title: An introduction to Membership Categorisation Analysis

• Date: 29/11/2023 - 30/11/2023

• Organised by: University of Liverpool 

• Presenter: Dr Robin James Smith 

• Level: Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)

• Contact: Dr Billie-Gina Thomason, engage@liverpool.ac.uk

• Venue: Online or in-person at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Cardiff, CF10 3WT

• Description: The central concern of Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) is the description of the array of categorisation practices observable in members’ “naturally-organised activities”. This workshop is focused on exploring and understanding what Harvey Sacks called the “member’s machinery” and how that foundation was later developed into a concern with the analysis of “culture-in-action”. Sacks’ early analyses considered how relevant categories are ‘used’ not only to categorise individuals as ‘representative’ members of a given category but, in a broader sense, to both produce and recognise the orderly character that scenes and activities observably have. In this sense, MCA is not a formal method of inquiry as such but forms a live ‘resource’ for members in the accomplishment of reasoning, sense-making, and social organisation. For members, such practices are employed in a range of everyday practices both in forms of talk and conversation (e.g. in telling a story about some event), but also in mobility practices (such as forming a queue or ‘flow file’ in public space) or accomplishing visual order (for example, of producing and viewing memes). For analysts, an attentiveness to categorisation practices provides a powerful means of accessing people’s “improvised cultural practices” (Hester and Francis, 2017) which provide the very grounds upon which the sense of the world is built. This introduction to and exploration of this ‘categorial landscape’ will be led by an expert in the field. It will be structured over the course of two-days and will include a plenary talk on the evening of the first day. The workshop will provide a summary of Sacks’ early work by working through some classic examples in order to familiarise participants with the aspects of ‘membership categorisation devices’ that form the cornerstone of MCA. We will also move on to consider further examples which demonstrate the contribution of MCA in addressing the centrality of categorisation practices in a range of activities and settings. Following introductory remarks and orientations, the workshop will be practical in nature and the majority of the second day of the workshop will take the form of data sessions where participants will be encouraged to contribute their own materials. Participants attending the course will leave well prepared to begin or continue their own studies in membership categorisation analysis.

• Further information can be found here: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13139.
|Year=2023
|Web link=https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13139
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2023/11/29
|To date=2023/11/30
|Address=CF10 3WT
|Location=51.48583, -3.18171
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Registration is on a first come, first served basis so please do reserve your place early.