Garfinkel 1967

Question 1

research question

Answer 1

how do members of society use seen but unnoticed background expectancies to maintain the rational character in everyday actions?

Question 2

method/data

Answer 2

ethnomethodological experiments: students documented interactions and fam responses

Question 3

main findings

Answer 3

social order relies on unspoken shared understandings, background expectancies: people rely on these to navigate social life
disruption of norms: caused confusion, anger, anxiety
social order -> collaborative environment

Question 4

relevance to foundational concepts

Answer 4

practices create “normal” social life
ethnomethodology: people actively produce social order