Phenomenology and ethnomethodology Flashcards
What is phenomenology and who created it?
the study of how we construct our knowledge of the objects that we interact with in our everyday lives
by Alfred Schtuz
What is everyday life in phenomenology?
How everyday reality is experienced by individuals and how these experiences inform their knowledge of their social worlds and everyday actions
What does performing our everyday tasks require?
“wide-awake attention to the here-and-now of everyday reality”
What is practical knowledge?
The know-how of our immediate reality and the tasks required by it
Built on our own experiences and interpretations, as well as those of others who came before us, making up “a scheme of reference”
What is a lifeworld?
This shared world of everyday life, together with its conventional practices, such as “customs” and “habits,”
What is common sense knowledge?
The stock of knowledge that our lifeworld provides us with, including, but not limited to, “typifications” about humans in general or about a group of people or community in particular as well as their “motivations, goals, and actions”
What is the social construction of reality in social phenomenology and who coined it?
Reality is not something that is out there, external to us or groups/communities/societies and our experiences and actions
We create our social reality and organize its elements in a collective way, and that way, we give it a fairly objective status.
By Berger and luckman
What is phenomenological diversity?
diversity of social worlds and realities
What is a symbolic universe and sub-universe?
Everyone has their own here-and-now reality but they seek to integrate it into a larger system of meaning. It helps to explain and justify one’s own experience.
What is ethnomethodology?
the study of the methods by which members of a collectivity construct reality by interpreting their experiences as well as explaining their actions, based on the common-sense knowledge of their group/community/society.
Ethnomethodology is concerned with studying the methods that members of a collectivity use in “categorizing” and “processing” daily experiences and, that way, in accomplishing “an ordered or organized” social reality
What is the accomplishment of social realities?
Collectivities provide their members with norms and expectations about how things are done (or are supposed to be done) and how things happen (or are expected to happen). When going on with their lives and carrying out their everyday activities, individuals use this frame of reference in interpreting their experiences and explaining their actions.
What is doing reality?
Through the ways we act and conduct our everyday lives, we produce reasonable and credible accounts of reality.
