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- the study of how people use social interaction to maintain an ongoing sense of reality in a situation
- study processes by which meanings are created and shared; no ordered social world unless participants agree upon it
- the study of everyday life and everyday decisions, everyday practice; trying to set aside assumptions about what is going on and observe closely |
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Ethnomethodologists
Gathering Data |
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| rely on conversational analysis and rigorous set of techniques for systematically observing and recording what happens when people interact in natural settings |
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- requires collection and analysis of highly detailed data on conversations
- conversations are context-shaped in the sense that what is said at any given moment is shaped by the preceding sequential context of the conversation (examples initiating laughter, applause, boos)
- "the fundamental framework of conversation is sequential organization"
- "the course of conversational interaction is managed on a turn-by-turn or local basis" |
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"Studies Of Ethnomethodology"
by H. Garfinkel (1957) |
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- how juries came to decisions, what is the reality that occurred and what the decision actually should be
- practical reasoning, everyday life decisions |
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Breaching the experiments
(Garfinkel) |
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- breaking the rules and then watching and observing what happens out of these breaches
- ways of trying to reveal the hidden assumptions in everyday life
- doing things that are not customary or expected
- parents demanded explanations from students for their behavior; explanations help them feel that under normal circumstances, interaction would occur as it always had |
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- born a male and had to learn how to behave as a woman (broke expected societal rules)
- gender is not necessarily ascribed but can be learned as an accomplishment of a set of situated practices
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- social systems are organized in ways that structure the alternatives and consequences facing individuals in such a way that they behave rationally
- actors have end goal toward which their actions are aimed
- actors calculate the relative costs and benefits of their actions before coming to a decision |
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- the idea that repeating past choices forms a very good way of making decisions
- people usually consider one or two actions and ultimately choose the habitual action |
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