The Roots of Ethnomethodology
Garfinkel's concept of Ethnomethodology started with his attempt at analyzing a jury discussion after a Chicago case in 1945. Garfinkel was attempting to understand the way jurors knew how to act as jurors. After attempting to understand the jurors actions, Garfinkel created the term "ethnomethodology" as a way to describe how people use different methods in order to understand the society they live in. Garfinkel noticed through his study of Ethnomethodology that the methods people use to understand the society they live in are very much fixed in people's natural attitudes.
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