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Membership categorization device (MCD)
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Description: Harvey Sacks (e.g., 1972a, 1972b, 1992) coined the term “membership categorization device” (MCD) to describe an apparatus that he observed participants systematically orienting to and using as a resource for action and inference in relation to categories of persons and the common-sense knowledge associated with them.
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