Rhoads1981
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Rhoads1981 |
| Author(s) | John K. Rhoads |
| Title | Ethnomethodology |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Journal | International Review of Modern Sociology |
| Volume | 11 |
| Number | 1-2 |
| Pages | 283–298 |
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Abstract
A relatively recent development in American sociology, ethnomethodology assumes a radical posture toward the methodological assumptions of sociology, Ethnomethodologists reject the "natural attitude of everyday life" according to which the world of experienced objects is taken for granted as real. It follows that one object or event cannot be causally explained by another as in conventional sociology. Rather, the focus of ethnomethodologists shifts to the methods and procedures according to which the individual interprets the world of objects. Thus, what sociologists utilize as resources for their investigations becomes problematized by ethnomethodologists. The chapter concludes with an evaluation that the ethnomethodological approach runs into logical and ontological difficulties.
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