Editing Conversation analysis (section)

===Membership categorization analysis===
Membership categorization analysis (MCA) was influenced by the work of Harvey Sacks and his work on Membership Categorization Devices (MCD). Sacks argues that members' categories comprise part of the central machinery of organization and developed the notion of MCD to explain how categories can be hearably linked together by native speakers of a culture. His example that is taken from a children's storybook (''The baby cried. The mommy picked it up'') shows how "mommy" is interpreted as the mother of the baby by speakers of the same culture. In light of this, categories are inference rich – a great deal of knowledge that members of a society have about the society is stored in terms of these categories.<ref name="sacks1992">{{cite book |last1=Sacks |first1=Harvey |editor1-last=Jefferson |editor1-first=Gail |title=Lectures on Conversation |date=1995 |publisher=Blackwell |location=Oxford|doi=10.1002/9781444328301|isbn=9781444328301 }}</ref> [[Emanuel Schegloff]] fleshed out the concept in his article on the formulation of place.  When asked 'where are you from?' the recipient can choose to respond in many different ways, eg. Main St., downtown, Irvine, California, the United States.  How they respond shows what identity they hope to claim, and the questioner will decide whether the recipient is indeed a member of the group they claim to be a member of based on how they speak going forward.  There is a connection here with the [[Other (philosophy)]] in philosophy,  [[social identity theory]], and ''[[The Social Construction of Reality]].'' [[Elizabeth Stokoe|Stokoe]] further contends that members’ practical categorizations form part of ethnomethodology's description of the ongoing production and realization of ‘facts’ about social life and including members’ gendered reality analysis, thus making CA compatible with [[Feminism|feminist]] studies.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stokoe |first1=Elizabeth |title=On Ethnomethodology, Feminism, and the Analysis of Categorial Reference to Gender in Talk-in-Interaction |journal=The Sociological Review |date=2006 |volume=54 |issue=3 |pages=467–494 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-954X.2006.00626.x|s2cid=145222628 }}</ref>