Ethnomethodology is sociological perspective‚ founded by the American sociologist Harold Garfinkel in 1954. According to his book "Studies on Ethnomethodology‚" ethnomethodology simply means the study of the ways in which people make sense of their social world‚ display this understanding to others‚ and produce the mutually shared social order in which they live. Ethnomethodology is a descriptive discipline and does not engage in the explanation or evaluation of the particular social order undertaken
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Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnomethodology‚ has a lot of similarities relating to the social aspects and their approaches. However‚ their sociological perspective is definitely what separates them both. Symbolic interactionism derived from the works of George Herbert Mead. Symbolic interactionism takes a minor view of society‚ it mainly focuses on a micro scale perspective of interactions‚ like when individuals are in small groups socializing with friends other than looking at things from a macro
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According to the textbook‚ ethnomethodology is “the study of the commonsense knowledge that people use to understand the situations in which they find themselves.” For this requirement‚ I had to “break the rules” during a specific activity and observe the results. I chose a rather safe approach to this requirement‚ breaking the rules of how I should behave when speaking to someone. I tried this out on two people‚ my boyfriend‚ and an acquaintance. Usually‚ it is not expected and probably considered
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Ethnomethodology Is there ever a time that you feel uncomfortable at the most awkward times? When in line at a grocery store would be an example of this. When standing unreasonably close to someone in front of you in the checkout lane has an estimated limit to how close you really are. Our immediate expectation of the shoppers is for them to move forward in line or say something to you or get mad about what is happening. The point of my project was to stand behind a person in a grocery store
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Ethnomethodology: Harold Garfinkel Ethnomethodology is a term coined by Harold Garfinkel in the movement of sociology towards interpretivism. It took place in a marginal relationship to mainstream sociology and was condemned to relevance of approach as in social psychology‚ but its influence grew regarding questions of social order‚ as carried out by Garfinkel’s once tutor‚ Talcott Parsons. It means that ordinary people carry out social actions according to their largely practical interpretations
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Ethnomethodology and symbolic interaction perspectives differ in their approach. Explain how these perspectives differ Ethnomethodology and Symbolic interaction are both sub-categories in the social theory of interaction. Interactionism focuses on the details of people’s everyday lives and how people use symbolism to communicate but also to maintain our character and the impression others have of us as individuals. Both perspectives study similar parts of social interaction and look at behavioral
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Ethnomethodology As an opening to this project‚ I have to mention how uneasy I was with having to invade my own personal space in order to complete this assignment. My stomach was actually turning flips just thinking about having to get too close to anybody‚ but I did manage to get close enough to complete the assignment. Ethnomethodology would be the only way to be able to do a study of personal space‚ because once you take someone out of their normal surroundings or situations‚ the rules change
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Phenomenology in Sociology Gurwitsch A 1966 Studies in Phenomenology and Psychology. Northwestern University Press‚ Evanston‚ IL Gurwitsch A 1979 Human Encounters in the Social World (ed. Me! traux A‚ trans. Kersten F). Duquesne University Press‚ Pittsburgh‚ PA Heidegger M 1962 Being and Time (trans. Macquarrie J‚ Robinson E). Harper & Row‚ New York Herzog M 1992 Phanomenologische Psychologie—Grundlagen W und Entwicklung (Phenomenological Psychology—Foundations and Development). Asanger
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the fields of sociology and social psychology‚ a breaching experiment is an experiment that seeks to examine people’s reactions to violations of commonly accepted social rules or norms. Breaching experiments are most commonly associated with ethnomethodology‚ and in particular the work of Harold Garfinkel. Breaching experiments involve the conscious exhibition of “unexpected” behavior/violation of social norms‚ an observation of the types of social reactions such behavioral violations engender‚ and
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have used such method in reaching their conclusions about social groups. Definition of Ethnomethodological ethnography According to Helman (2007)‚ two traditions have influenced the evolution of ethnomethodological ethnography: ethnography and ethnomethodology. First‚ ethnography is an approach that focuses on the prolonged observation and profound exploration of a specific group of people to understand how they organise their everyday activities and how they view their surroundings. In sociology
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