Ethnomethodology

Question 1

ethnomethodology

Answer 1

garfinkel

methods that people use to construct order in their everyday social world

Question 2

ethnomethodology - social construction

Answer 2

social reality is constructed

society has no social structures

Question 3

ethnomethodology - social order

Answer 3

illusion

imposes a sense of order by common-sense procedures to maintain stability

Question 4

ethnomethodology - type of technique

Answer 4

experimental

expose the assumptions/rules people impose on the world & to examine people’s reactions of these assumptions

Question 5

ethnomethodology - study on students about social order

Answer 5

students asked to behave as visitors in their own homes and record their parents reaction (concern, anger, confusion)
shows how people create social older through shared assumptions & how fragile social order is

Question 6

ethnomethodology - criticisms

Answer 6

• structures constrains peoples behaviour, people don’t have free choice due to differences in life chances
• doesn’t explain peoples motivations, where they get their meanings from
• underestimates distribution of power, not everyone has same chance of getting their definition to stick
• metanarrative