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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 — 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
commonsense knowledge — This refers, unsurprisingly, to routine knowledge we have of our everyday world and activities. Different sociological approaches adopt different attitudes to commonsense knowledge. The concept is central to Alfred Schutz s phenomenological… … Dictionary of sociology
members' methods — A term used by ethnomethodologists to refer to the methods by which people make sense of activities to themselves … Dictionary of sociology
suicide — Commonly defined as the intentional killing of oneself. Émile Durkheim , in his classic study Suicide (1897), defined it as ‘every case of death which results directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act, accomplished by the victim… … Dictionary of sociology
