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Subject: Re: Ethnomethodology
Is ethnomethodology postmodernist?  


>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.