Ethnomethodology

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Which theorist is associated with Phenomenology?
Alfred Schutz
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Which theorist is associated with Ethnomethodology?
Harold Garfinkel
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how are ethnomethodology and phenomenology related?
ethnomethdology extends the ideas of phenomenology
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what does Schutz argue?
he says sociology should only study how people manage to give meanings to things
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what is phenomenology?
an approach that focuses on the reality of everyday life and how individuals make sense of their everyday experiences
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what is 'lifeworld'
lifeworld is what phenomenologists study, the world of everyday life made up of taken for granted routines, habits, customs and knowledge
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whats the difference between symbolic interactionism and phenonmenology?
SI focuses on how meaning is produced through interaction whereas phenomenology focuses on individuals experience of everyday realities
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What is the Natural attitude?
it is the reality that seems natural and normal to the individual because it is the everyday reality that he or she knows
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what does Schutz think about the natural attitude?
To Schutz, it is this natural attitude, this taken for granted unspoken stuff that makes society work - that is what should be studied in Phenomenology.
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what does intersubjective mean?
people have a shared reality, but everyone experiences it in a slightly different way - Schutz thinks this
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what are Typifications?
these are the typical. customary, everyday understandings of what things and people do. it is these typifications that make the world meaningful to us. they are our world.
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What do ethnomethodologists think?
they think that the knowledge we all have is not as solid and reliable as Schutz makes out.
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What is the accomplishment of social reality?
Garfinkel thinks that social reality is 'accomplished' through ongoing endless micro-interaction. this accomplishment is the fundamental phenomenon that social sciences should study.
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what do ethnomethodologists study?
the study of people's methods for making the appearance of social order, for making believe that society really exists.
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what does indexicality mean?
the idea that there is no such thing as a clear, extensive definition of any word or concept in a language, since meaning comes from reference to other words and the context it is in.
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what does reflexivity mean?
order is created through talk. for ethnomethodologists, to describe a situation is at the same time to create it.
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what are breaching demonstrations?
they highlight the fragility of social life. it is designed to disrupt a particular micro-social reality in order to illustrate the fragility of everyday reality
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What does Cicourel say regarding ethnomethodology?
he says we experience the world in a rich way - all five senses at once. yet when we talk about our experience, we use language and language is a very blunt tool - reflexivity - creating a simpler version
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how does cicourel say we deal with indexicality?
he says there are deep rules for how to create simplified versions of experience. these rules help us to cope with indexicality, they make it possible to shift from a word with one meaning to another.
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what transcription technique is standard with conversational analysis?
the Jefferson Transcription - developed by Gail Jefferson
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what is conversational analysis?
it details the specific, pragmatic, steps that establish meaning and order through talk.
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