Membership categorisation analysis
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Historical note
- 3.Analytical tools
- 4.Analysing categorisation work
- 4.1Categorisation and identity
- 4.2Categorisation and the media
- 4.3Categorisation as a moral matter
- 5.Suggestions for future research
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