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ethnomethodology

The study of social order and routines used by people in their daily lives, to explain how everyday reality is created and perceived. Ethnomethodologists tend to use small-scale studies and experiments to examine the details of social life and structure (such as conversations) that people normally take for granted, rather than construct large-scale theories about society.



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The ethnomethodological work of Harold Garfinkel, especially as taken up by a group of researchers at Santa Barbara, is reflected in institutional ethnography, (e.
I take this term to include a large cluster of post-modern, post-structuralist, ethnomethodological, deconstructing, and discourse-oriented perspectives, despite the myriad differences among these sects (see Knorr-Cetina & Mulkay, 1983).
 
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