Describe differences between ethnography and ethnomethodology.
What will be an ideal response?
An ethnography is the study of a culture or cultures that a group of people share (Van Maanen, 1995). As a method, it is usually meant to refer to the process by which a single investigator immerses himself or herself in a group for a long time (often one or more years), gradually establishing trust and experiencing the social world as do the participants (Madden, 2010). Ethnographic research can be called naturalistic, because it seeks to describe and understand the natural social world as it is, in all its richness and detail. This goal is best achieved when an ethnographer is fluent in the local language and spends enough time in the setting to know how people live, what they say about themselves and what they actually do, and what they value (Armstrong, 2008).
What Is Ethnomethodology? Ethnomethodology is a theoretical approach in sociology based on the belief that you can discover the normal social order of a society by disrupting it. Ethnomethodologists explore the question of how people account for their behaviors. To answer this question, they may deliberately disrupt social norms to see how people respond and how they try to restore social order. Ethnomethodology was first developed during the 1960's by a sociologist named Harold Garfinkel. It is not an especially popular method, but it has become an accepted approach. NOTE: I found no mention of ethnomethodology in the text.
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