Definition
This particular approach in sociology is closely related to applications and approaches employed by researchers of ethnology, ethnobotany, ethnophysiology, and ethnomusicology. According to Garfinkel, ethnomethodology is an appropriate term for the study of, “a member’s knowledge of his ordinary affairs, of his own organized enterprises, where that knowledge is treated by us as part of the same setting that makes it orderable.” According to Anne Rawls ethno+method+ology means the study of members' methods for producing recognizable social order/s
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