Ethnomethodology

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Ethnomethodology
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Goals of Ethnomethodology

• Discover methods by which members of a society
  make sense of social order/ the world
• Discover the interpretive procedures used by
  group to achieve order/ stability

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Goals

• Discover the ordinary arrangement of a set of
  located practices
• Discover the typicfications and anticipations
  to which actors orient as they make continuous
  sense of their environments of action

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Five features of reality

• Tenets of of article
• All realities are superstitious.
• Reasoning is scientific,oracular and
  commonsensical.

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Five Features

• Reality as reflexive action
• Incorrigibility proposition
• Object constancy assumption
• Talk as reflexive activity
• Reality as a coherent body of knowledge
• Taxonomic understanding

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Five Features

• Reality as interactional activity
• Meaning unfolds within continuous practical
  actions
• Meanings are indexical
• Fragility of reality
• Breakdowns in understanding when reflexive and
  interactional work disrupted