The term ethnomethodology was coined by Harold Garfinkel, whose Studies in Ethnomethodology (1967) set the directions for a unique field of sociological investigation. As the word ethnomethodology implies, it is the study of ‘people’s...

An area of research in interpretative sociology initiated by H.Garfinkel concerned with the analysis of formal properties of practical reasoning. It investigates the activities whereby members of a sociocultural community produce and manage settings...

The sociological study of the way in which ordinary people understand and produce co-ordinated social interaction. As a research technique, it has been more frequently used in the study of children’s education than it has been in adult...

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Ethnomethodology (literally, 'the study of a people's (folk) methods') is a sociological discipline which examines the ways in which people make sense of their world, display this understanding to others, and produce the mutually shared social order in...

Paul ten Have. Understanding Qualitative Research and Ethnomethodology. Thousand Oaks, CA, London and New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2004. Pp.216, bibliog., index. US$39.95 (Pb.), ISBN 0-76196-685-4; US$119.00 (Hc.), ISBN 0-76196-684-6. Paul ten Have's book, Understanding Qualitative Research and Ethnomethodology might have been better titled...

Jalbert, Paul L. (Ed.). Media Studies: Ethnomethodological Approaches. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 1999 Pp. xx, 284. ISBN 0-7618-1286-5 (hb.) $57.00; 0-7618-1287-3 (pb.) $38.50. The first chapter of this collection seeks to distinguish ethnomethodology from media sociology or from sociology...