SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ethnomethodology, Harold Garfinkel, Symbolic Interactionism
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An action or behavior that violates social norms, including a formally enacted rule (e. g. crime), as well as informal violations of social norms. Symbolic interactionism - deviance is socially constructed. Durkheim - role of integration and regulation. Merton - individual"s acceptance of the goals and means of society. Ethnomethodology is a perspective within sociology which focuses on the way people make sense of their everyday world. People are seen as rational actors, but employ practical reasoning rather than formal logic to make sense of function in society. Interested in the strength of social norms and social conformity in maintenance of everyday life. Relations in public: microstudies of the public order (1971) Violating a social norm and observing the strength of the reaction, degree to which it can cause anger/stress in others, ways of rationalizing and reconciling breach.
