Ethnomethodology Flashcards
What did Alfred Schutz say?
Sociology should only study how people manage to give meanings to things
How is the stuff we need to get by created?
Created anew each encounter we have
What is ethnomethodology?
Study of peoples methods for making the appearance of social order, for making believe that society really exists
What gives us or sense of order?
Talk - we describe order when we talk
What is indexicality?
Meaning is always open to dispute but we pretend that it isn’t by operating taken-for-granted rules to establish what things mean
What makes society possible?
Refraining from questioning the normality of things
What is the big difference between Garfinkel and Schutz?
Whether there really is a world out there which people are trying to make sense of
