Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology

PHENOMENOLOGY AND ETHNOMETHODOLOGY

Intellectual Influences: phenomenology - Husserl - Schutz

Socio-historical Influences - New School of Social Research in NY in the 1950s - Schutz, 1933-1959 - critical Marxist debate on ideology - Nazis, Cold War, McCarthyism - The Sixties - New School: Berger - California: Garfinkle, Cicourel, Zimmerman and Sacks - Civil Rights, Student's, Women's movements: Yippies

Model of Realities

Taken for Granted typification Experienced Reality Reality (Schutz) (Garfinkle)

organization accounts

Essential Consciousness Reality interpretation (Husserl) - Husserl: phenomenological philosophy - critique of positivism - reality as product of consciousness - essential versus taken-for-granted - bracketing common sense - Shutz: phenomenological sociology - social construction of reality - accounts: social influence - organization: consciousness - study "nonproblematic" components - basic common knowledge - basic map of the commonplace - Garfinkle: Ethnomethodology - how people make common sense of social world - standard procedures or grammar - not conscious/aware of procedures - research method - text analysis - breaching experiments