SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Harold Garfinkel, Ethnomethodology, Culture Shock
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Much of everyday life is patterned exhibits great deal of regularity & order. This is because much of daily life is characterized by what harold garfinkel called background expectancies. Culture shock no one explains background expectancies. Background expectancies how each social context comes w/ an associated set of. There are people who disrupt expectancies but societies mostly have. Trust essential & taken-for granted part of social relations. Ex. trust that people won"t drive through intersection when you are crossing common expectations expectancies street. Examples lining up in queues, merging on the highway, using pedestrian street. Also how social order constituted by members in everyday life. Sociology pays attention to the most commonplace activities of daily life normally afforded to extraordinary events see ethnomethodology. Investigation of social order is, above all, an investigation of the problems of permanence and change. The bonds that unite speaking of we . Looking at how individuals are brought together within larger configurations of people.
