ethnomethodology

ethnomethodology
An academic discipline that attempts to understand the social orders people use to make sense of the world through analysing their accounts and descriptions of their day-to-day experiences.

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  • Ethnomethodology — What is ethnomethodologyEthnomethodology is a sociological discipline which studies the ways in which people make sense of their world, display this understanding to others, and produce the mutually shared social order in which they live. The… …   Wikipedia

  • ethnomethodology — A sociological approach which emerged out of the breakdown of the so called orthodox consensus in the mid 1960s. The label was coined by the American sociologist Harold Garfinkel, who laid the foundations of ethnomethodology as a theory, and as a …   Dictionary of sociology

  • ethnomethodology — noun Date: 1967 a branch of sociology dealing with nonspecialists commonsense understanding of the structure and organization of society • ethnomethodologist noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • ethnomethodology — ethnomethodologist, n. /eth noh meth euh dol euh jee/, n. the sociological study of the rules and rituals underlying ordinary social activities and interactions. [1960 65; ETHNO + METHODOLOGY] * * * …   Universalium

  • ethnomethodology — The study of common social knowledge, in particular as it concerns the understanding of others and the varieties of circumstance in which it can take place …   Philosophy dictionary

  • ethnomethodology — study of everyday communication Sciences and Studies …   Phrontistery dictionary

  • ethnomethodology — eth·no·methodology …   English syllables

  • ethnomethodology — The study of social customs and rules …   Grandiloquent dictionary

  • ethnomethodology — …   Useful english dictionary

  • Studies in ethnomethodology — Auteur Harold Garfinkel Genre Ouvrage de sociologie Pays d origine  États Unis Éditeur Pren …   Wikipédia en Français

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