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ethnomethodology

Noun

Meaning

ethnomethodology (countable and uncountable, plural ethnomethodologies)

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An academic discipline that attempts to understand the social orders people use to make sense of the world through analysing their accounts and descriptions of their day-to-day experiences.

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Examples

In 1967, the late American sociologist Harold Garfinkel published his seminal Studies in Ethnomethodology, in which he wrote about the value of “breaching experiments” as a way of testing normality. Source: Internet

So also, theories and methodologies such as Phenomenology of Alfred Schutz and Ethnomethodology of Harold Garfinkel were all from the interpretative Sociology championed by Weber. Source: Internet

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