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Card 6

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Phenomenology - we impose order by constructing mental categories that classify information coming from senses - we share categories with others (typifications). These allow us to organise experiences into shared world of meaning.

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Card 7

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Ethnomethodology - rejects idea of society as real objective structure. Members of society actively construct everyday life. Nothing has fixed meaning-depends on context (indexicality). We can't take meanings for granted but we do - reflexivity.