Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (uconnvm.uconn.edu [137.99.26.3]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id MAA00989 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 12:00:18 -0600 (MDT) Received: from UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU by UConnVM.UConn.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1174; Mon, 12 May 97 14:00:11 EDT Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (NJE origin DAVIDSON@UCONNVM) by UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 9510; Mon, 12 May 1997 14:00:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 May 97 13:54:34 EDT From: Alan Subject: Ethnomethodology To: socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Message-Id: <970512.140011.EDT.DAVIDSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To clarify things a bit, I never intended to state or argue that ethnomethodology studies things from the viewpoint of the participant (definitely not as an atomistic actor -- read Blumer). What Ethnomethodology does do is seek to recognize the embeddedness in what actors do and say within the meaning systems and organizational constraints both existing and defined by actors as existing within particular settings and situations. As for a distinction with Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology is generally more structuralist, very much in a Parsonian way -- but so is PostModernism for that matter.