Definitions
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- noun The branch of sociology that deals with the codes and conventions of everyday social interactions and activities.
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- noun An
academic discipline that attempts to understand thesocial orders people use to make sense of the world throughanalysing their accounts and descriptions of theirday-to-day experiences.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And he also describes a significant French interest in the American Chicago school of sociology and the approaches of "ethnomethodology".
Archive 2009-04-01 Daniel Little 2009
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And he also describes a significant French interest in the American Chicago school of sociology and the approaches of "ethnomethodology".
French sociology as a distinctive tradition Daniel Little 2009
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Behavior in Public Places, 3-4The school of ethnomethodology also attempts to provide this kind of detailed observation and description.
Archive 2009-01-01 Daniel Little 2009
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Behavior in Public Places, 3-4The school of ethnomethodology also attempts to provide this kind of detailed observation and description.
Everyday social interactions Daniel Little 2009
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Influenced by Harold Garfinkel's ethnomethodology, generative semiotics of Griemas and maverick sociology of Gabriel Tarde.
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Influenced by Harold Garfinkel's ethnomethodology, generative semiotics of Griemas and maverick sociology of Gabriel Tarde.
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This calls for a variety of skills: strategic thinking, ethnomethodology, information management techniques and functional expertise (marketing, logistics, legal, ...).
About :: Headshift Olivier Amprimo 2008
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This calls for a variety of skills: strategic thinking, ethnomethodology, information management techniques and functional expertise (marketing, logistics, legal, ...).
About :: Headshift 2008
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We have a tendency in HCI to think of areas in HCI to be about their topic of study - e.g. ubiquitous computing studies ubiquitous technologies, affective computing studies emotion - but this tends to collapse the object of study with the orientation to the study, as though the only possible way to do "workplace studies" is through the lens of CSCW/ethnomethodology and the only way to do build hardware is through the lens of Computer Science.
What theory in HCI is about Erik Stolterman 2009
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Sally wasn’t the person Mariah would have picked for her daughter’s friend, but watching Lindsay apply the Thomas theorem, matching an opponent’s wit and endurance often resulted in a desired friendship, was ethnomethodology, a theory Mariah respected, because instead of accepting a perceived reality as already being out there, it showed that you could create and live your own reality.
The Owl and Moon Cafe Jo-Ann Mapson 2006
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