![DEFINITION
“Approach to studying human interaction
[that] focuses on the ways in which we make
sense of our world, convey this information
to others, and produce a mutually shared
order”
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Ethnomethodology
Ethnomethodology is an approach to studying human interaction that focuses on how people make sense of their social world and communicate shared understandings. It assumes that members of society have shared methods to construct meaningful social situations. A key method is "breaching experiments" where sociologists violate social norms to study how people respond. The document discusses breaching experiments, key theorists like Garfinkel and Sacks, and areas of focus for ethnomethodology like institutional settings, challenges to record keeping, and conversational analysis. It raises questions about whether ethnomethodology is a valid form of sociology and how it addresses power.
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Ethnomethodology
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- 2. OBJECTIVES Introduce Ethnomethodology (Eth-Meth) Understand“Breaching Experiments”
- 3. Sociology of Knowledge Symbolic Phenomenological Interactionism Sociology Labeling Existential Ethno- Dramaturgy Theory Sociology methodology
- 4. DEFINITION “Methods of thepeople”
- 5. DEFINITION “Approach to studyinghuman interaction [that] focuses on the ways in which we make sense of our world, convey this information to others, and produce a mutually shared order” Conley (2008):138
- 6. QUESTIONS How do individualscome to understand the social world?
- 7. GOALS Focus on “Sense-making” Rules ofconduct Conversational analysis
- 8. ASSUMPTIONS “Members of societymust have some shared methods that they use to mutually construct the meaningful orderliness of social situations” Rawls/Garfinkel (2002):6
- 9. THEORISTS 1 2 2 1 Harold Garkinkel 2 Harvey Sacks 3 Gail Jefferson 4 Emanual Schegloff 3 4
- 10. “Cultural Learnings ofAmerica”
- 11. OUR FOCUS Garfinkel’s BreachingExperiments Sociologist Nathan Palmer’s “Doing Nothing and Learning Deviance” http://www.youtube.com/watch? feature=player_embedded&v=kgso3Y-l0h8
- 12. Examples of whenwe have not followed the “rules”?
- 13. EXAMPLES? Have you done“breaching experiments” in your other sociology classes?
- 14. EM RESEARCH Institutional Settings Ethnography// Challenges to Record Keeping Discourse and Conversational Analysis
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- 16. Eth-Meth: Ethnography andChallenges to Record Keeping
- 17. Eth-Meth: Discourse andConversational Analysis
- 18. CRITICISMS Is this sociology? Whatabout power?*
- 19. DISCUSSION How could youuse ethnomethodology in your own group or research projects?
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- 21. Thank You! Danielle Dirks,Ph.D. Department of Sociology Occidental College dirks@oxy.edu danielledirks.com @danielledirks