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ethnomethodology
According to Duncan Mitchell ethno methodology emphasizes on the incarnate character of social phenomena i.e. sociological terms such as culture or organization refer to the doings and sayings of people the situated nature of sociological research i.e. professional sociologists study society from within. According to Garfinkel ethnomethodology means the study of the methods used by people. It is concerned with examining the methods and procedures employed by members of society to construct account for and give meaning to their social world. Ethnomethodoligists either suspend or abandon the belief that an actual or objective social order exists. Instead they proceed from the assumption that social life appears orderly to members of society. Zimmerman and Wieder state that the ethno-methodologist is concerned with how members of society go about the task of seeing, describing and explaining order in the world in which they live.
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