Moral accounts and membership categorization in primary care medical interviews.

摘要: Although the link between health and morality has been well established, few studies have examined how issues of emerge are addressed in primary care medical encounters. This paper addresses need to examine as it is (re) constructed everyday interactions. A Membership Categorization Analysis 96 interviews reveals patients orient particular membership categories distance themselves from others a means accounting (Buttny 1993; Scott Lyman 1968) for morally questionable behaviours. More specifically, this examines use categorizations order achieve specific social identity(ies) (Schubert et al. 2009) through two strategies: defensive detailing prioritizing alternative categories. Thus, analysis tracks emergence cultural moral knowledge about life takes place