Sociology 2271A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Harold Garfinkel, Ethnomethodology, Aisle
14 Jun 2013
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What does this mean to you: norms and value within people. What is ethnomethodology: the study of everyday methods that people use to live their daily lives . What people do and why they do it. Daily activity that become routine to us. Ex) lining up to pay for groceries you go to the shortest line and then you stand at the back and everyone does this (we value our space) Other cultures may have people budding in line and this may not be unusual (don"t really value space: method = how you use this knowledge. Taught at u. c. l. a has become main training centre for ethnomethodologists. Studies in ethnomethodology (1967: emile durkheim (social facts, alfred schutz (phenomenology, and symbolic interactionism. Placed primary importance on meanings that people give to everyday situations and how define their own situations. Accounts = stories that people tell to explain how they make sense of a situation and figure out what to do.
