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Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology

Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology. History Phenomenology Ethnomethodology Critique Doing Gender. History. Sociologies of Everyday Life Agency Micro level Subjectivity Phenomenology Schutz Ethnomethodology Garfinkel. Phenomenology. Schutz Intersubjectivity

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Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology

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  1. Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology History Phenomenology Ethnomethodology Critique Doing Gender

  2. History • Sociologies of Everyday Life • Agency • Micro level • Subjectivity • Phenomenology • Schutz • Ethnomethodology • Garfinkel

  3. Phenomenology • Schutz • Intersubjectivity • We-relations vs. they-relations

  4. Ethnomethodology • Comparison with Phenomenology • Ethno/method/ology • Examination of the methods people commonly use to sustain some kind of consensus about the world, and to solve problems that often have highly irrational features

  5. Ethnomethodology (cont.) • Garfinkel • Parsons • Social behavior operates on incomplete or uncertain behavior • Examples of Research • Breaching experiments • Conversations • Interruptions, turn-taking

  6. Ethnomethodology (cont.) • Empirical Studies • Anspach • Medical students learn emotional detachment • Taught through case presentations • Impact on patients

  7. Ethnomethodology (cont.) • Empirical Studies (cont.) • West • Asymmetrical relations between physicians and patients • Data • Sociable chitchat • Turn-taking • Questions/answers

  8. Critique Research questions Phenomenological roots Social structures

  9. Doing Gender • West and Zimmerman • Gender as a routine accomplishment embedded in everyday interaction • Involves creating differences • Not a simple task • It’s unavoidable • Implications for social change

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