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ethnomethodology
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eth·no·meth·od·ol·o·gy  (thn-mth-dl-j)
n.
The branch of sociology that deals with the codes and conventions that underlie everyday social interactions and activities.

ethno·method·olo·gist n.

ethnomethodology [ˌɛθnəʊmɛθəˈdɒlədʒɪ]
n
(Linguistics) a method of studying linguistic communication that emphasizes common-sense views of conversation and the world Compare phenomenology


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He claims that an ethnomethodologist needs to "elucidate what a complete stranger would have to learn to become a routinely functioning member of a group, a program, or a culture" (p.
She had had discussions with ethnomethodologists while a student at Berkeley, but it wasn't until later when she was teaching sociology at the University of British Columbia beginning in the late 1960s that the real upsurge in non-positivist sociology occurred.
 
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