Define the term “ethnomethodological indifference” and its role in the relationship between ethnomethodology and other sociological theoretical perspectives.
What will be an ideal response?
Ethnomethodologists strive for “ethnomethodological indifference,” an attitude of detachment that is rooted in neither intellectual naïveté nor condescension (Garfinkel and Sacks 1970:346). They seek to suspend belief in a rule-governed order in order to observe how the regular, coherent, connected patterns of social life are described and explained in ways that create that order itself (Zimmerman and Wieder 1970:289). That is, they seek to understand how people see, describe, and jointly develop a definition of the situation (ibid.). Students should contrast this from the structural functionalist, conflict, and interactionist perspectives as well as the sociological imagination.
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a. plant extinctions and loss of new medical drugs. b. climate changes in the U.S. Midwest. c. loss of plant-based energy to replace fossil fuels. d. all of the above.
When conflict/critical theorists look at deviant behavior, they often focus on ______.
A. how people interact and define the world around them B. how deviance is caused by childhood socialization C. how inequality causes the less powerful to engage in deviant and criminal acts D. how individuals learn deviant behavior from the media
Discuss how health disparities are affected by social conditions such as race
What will be an ideal response?
Richard Emerson defined ______ as the potential cost that an actor is willing to tolerate within a relationship.
A. power B. dependence C. recursivity D. risk