Ethnomethodology is a method for understanding the social orders people use to make sense of the world through analysing their accounts and descriptions of their day-to-day experiences. It is an alternative to the American sociological approach to data analysis born in the 1960s with its theoretical and epistemological importance being that it is ...
study of everyday communication
Harold Garfinkel's term for the study of the way people make sense of their everyday lives
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
(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 ...
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.
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.
A form of ethnography that studies activities of group members to see how they make sense of their surroundings
A form of ethnography that studies activities of group members to see how they make sense of their surroundings
the sociological study of the rules and rituals underlying ordinary social activities and interactions.
A theoretical perspective formulated by Garfinkel that examines how people’s background assumptions help them make sense of everyday situations.