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Ethnomethodology is a discipline that studies the conduct of individuals within a particular society and the methods that these individuals use to actualize and accomplish their conduct / patterns of daily life in order to draw conclusions about that particular society or about a specific population within that society. In this case, inquiry would be focused on social contractions that adolescents experience and the consequences of such contradictions in their development.
The methods of study that I would utilize would be the following: I would limit my inquiry to a specific age (for instance, adolescents between 14 and 18); to a specific population (for instance, adolescents of second-generation Chinese who are living in America); to a certain area of America; and to a distinct socio-economic segment (for instance well -- educated, suburbia). Since ethnomethodological inquiry can be potentially huge, I would also employ other exclusionary factors such as ascertaining that individuals surveyed have led a crime-free, sheltered life and are...
I would also evaluate computer games that most prefer to play with, popular music, hobbies, TV shows, and the ways in which they spend their recreation time.
Other methods would be methods for styling hair, methods for wearing swim suits, or fashion in general, methods for using body language and gesturing, and practices employed when talking amongst cliques or in classroom or amongst members of ethnic peer age and towards members of an older or younger age group.
Using George Psathas (1995) five types of ethnomethodological study, I will focus inquiry on five different elements. These are:
1. The way this particular segment of adolescents organizes its practical actions and practical reasoning. Included here would be analysis of actions such as how they conduct research needed for their school studies or how they…
Reference
Garfinkel, H. (2002) Ethnomethodology's program. NY: Rowman & Littlefield
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