Montreal Massacre, The

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"The Montreal Massacre: A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis adopts an ethnomethodological viewpoint to analyze how the murder of women by a lone gunman at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal was presented to the public via media publication over a two-week period in 1989. All that the public came to know and understand of the murders, the murderer, and the victims was constituted in the description and commentaries produced by the media. What the murders became, therefore, was an expression of the methods used to describe and evaluate them, and central to these methods was membership category analysis - the human practice of perceiving people, places, and events as "members" of "categories," and to use these to explain actions."--Jacket.

subjects: Case studies,  Crime and the press,  Journalism,  Methodology,  Social aspects of Journalism,  Crime & criminology,  Literary Criticism,  Sociology,  Quebec,  Media Studies,  Sociology - General,  Violence in Society,  Social Science / General,  Mystery & Detective Fiction,  Reference,  Journalism, social aspects,  Journalism, canada,  Ethnomethodology,  Mass media and crime,  Massacres,  Journalisme,  Methodologie,  Presse,  Aspect social,  Cas, Études de,  Criminalite et presse,  Social aspects,  Montreal École Polytechnique Women Students Massacre, Montreal, Quebec, 1989,  Montréal École Polytechnique Women Students Massacre, Montréal, Québec, 1989

Places: Ontario