It means the study of practical social order. Ethnomethodologists assume meaning is located in the way people act, so they look to study the way those actions are organised in real time. One major difficultly in understanding this field is due to having to see how people produce order in and through their own actions. It is inherently empirical as a result. Theoretical explanations of how the social world works are treated as second to witnessing how people naturally manage themselves in everyday life. It may help to understand what Ethnomethodology is only in relation to some type of data you are interested in working with. A definition of the subject therefore becomes confusing because under this discipline it’s definition is related to the phenomena under investigation: social order and the methods people use to organise and maintain that.
This actually helped me understand this in my Sociology class. Thanks so much for the explanation!
I've watched practically all videos on ethnomethodology, yet I still don't understand what the heck ethnomethodology means.
It means the study of practical social order. Ethnomethodologists assume meaning is located in the way people act, so they look to study the way those actions are organised in real time. One major difficultly in understanding this field is due to having to see how people produce order in and through their own actions. It is inherently empirical as a result. Theoretical explanations of how the social world works are treated as second to witnessing how people naturally manage themselves in everyday life. It may help to understand what Ethnomethodology is only in relation to some type of data you are interested in working with. A definition of the subject therefore becomes confusing because under this discipline it’s definition is related to the phenomena under investigation: social order and the methods people use to organise and maintain that.
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Ethnographic Research