Look up: Ethnomethodology

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   Ethnomethodology
   The study of how people make sense of what others say and do in the course of day-to-day social interaction. Ethnomethodology is concerned with the ‘ethnomethods` by means of which human beings sustain meaningful interchanges with one another.
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   Ethnomethodology
   Harold Garfinkel's term for the study of the way people make sense of their everyday lives
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   Ethnomethodology
   Systematic study of the ways in which people use social interaction to make sense of their situation and create their 'reality'. This research methodology, associated with sociology, focuses on how people understand their everyday activities
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   Ethnomethodology
   involves the examination of the ways in which people produce orderly social interaction on a routine, everyday basis. It provides the theoretical underpinning for conversation analysis.
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   Ethnomethodology
   `Ethnomethodology` (literally, 'the study of a people's (folk) methods') is a sociological discipline which examines the ways in which people make sense of their world, display this understanding to others, and produce the mutually shared social order in which they live. The term was initially coined by Harold Garfinkel in the 1960s. Ethnomethodology is distinct from traditional sociology, and does not seek to compete with it, or provide remedie...
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   ethnomethodology
   (from the article `sociology`) In Studies in Ethnomethodology (1967), Harold Garfinkel coined the term ethnomethodology to designate the methods individuals use in daily life to ...
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   ethnomethodology
   ethnomethodology 1. The study of everyday communication; especially, of a particular ethnic or racial group. 2. A style of sociological analysis which seeks to expose and analyze the methods by which participants in a given social situation construct their commonsense knowledge of the world.
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