SOC 205 Week 1 Discussion 2

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Week 1 - Discussion 2

Harold Garfinkel: Studies in Ethnocmethodology

Like phenomenology, ethno methodology is all about meaning and, in particular, how it is communicated and shared between people. Reading Garfinkel’s “Studies in Ethno methodology” is a bit like reading a sitcom script in parts, if only because his brilliant breaching experiments expose the taken-for-granted absurdity of our everyday existence. Ponder the questions below as you work through the reading of Harold Garfinkel’s work, “Studies in Ethno methodology” in Section One of your text, Social Theory Re-Wired. Look at the recommended resources for this week for additional materials to help you complete this discussion.

Answer the following:

·         What does Garfinkel mean when he writes that moral facts are the “natural facts of life”?

·         What are “background expediencies” and how do they typically come about in everyday conversation?

·         Garfinkel gives us a series of either experiments in which the background expectancy of conversation are made apparent, by a student analyzing a conversation after the fact, as in the case of the husband and wife talking about Dana, or cases where experimenters deliberately disrupted the taken-for-granted assumptions. Think of an example where such background expectancy were important for your own conversation with someone to become meaningful. Explain and quote the conversation that occurred as they did in the reading.

·         Explain what methods you used to make the conversation “happen,” or in other words, how you ensured that the “background expectancy” of your conversation were understood by the other person?

·         Explain how understanding other’s background expectancy are useful in society.

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references . Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.