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Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 14:13:00 +0600
To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu
From: Jeff Janosko <jjanosko@vt.edu>
Subject: Re: Ethnomethodology
Alan,
        I doubt that anyone thought that you intended to state that EM is
synonymous with the "viewpoint of the participant".  I think it was your
intention to give a brief definition of EM...something that seems to be more
difficult than either of us imagined.  Jeff


At 01:54 PM 5/12/97 EDT, Alan wrote:
>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.
>