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2.0 UNIT OBJECTIVES At
the end of this Unit, you should be able to
• Explain the terms Ethnomethodology and Conversational Analysis
• Describe how to conduct a research using
ethnomethodological approach • Describe how language functions in the social world
3.0 MAIN CONTENT 3.1 What is Ethnomethodology? Ethnomethodologyis a blend of the words Ethnography and methodology.
It is a branch of Anthropology, which studies people in their environment. Methodology simply refers to the way of doing things. The major focus is the cultural behaviour of the people) and the methods involved in doing a particular thing. The term
Ethnomethodology is a sociological term, which describes a discipline that studies how people make sense of their world. How they are able to understand one another to the extent that they are able to exist in an orderly social context.
Ethnomethodological approach was developed
by a sociologist named Harold Garfinkel. The approach looks at the organization of practical actions and reasoning, the organization of talk-in-interaction. Ethnomethodologists are concerned primarily with Ethnomethodology which is concerned with the how (the methods) by which social order is produced, and shared. One thing that is of central concern to ethnomethodologist is context Their focus is always on the ways in which words are dependent for their meaning on the context in which they are used.
Ethnomethodology is concerned
basically with the following •
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