A membership categorization analysis of the waco siege: Perpetrator-victim identity as a moral discrepancy device for 'doing' subversion

Sociological Research Online

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 38-48

  Clifton, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Identity; Membership categorization analysis; Moral discrepancy; Subversion; Victim perpetrator

Indexed keywords

EID: 71749118356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13607804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5153/sro.2002     Document Type: Article

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