Ethnomethodology As A Social Norm

“Ethnomethodology is the study of how people use commonsense understandings to make sense of life”. (Henslin, 2013, p.116). People use this approach to understand the basic rules of world and they act certain manner with their background assumptions and assume a reality out of it. People define their own realities and then live within those definitions. For example, my sociology professor challenged a social norm to students over a weekend and I decided it would be a good idea to wear a shirt inside out for performing ethnomethodology experiment. My parents were very questioning throughout a day but didn’t ask me until the end of day. My mother asked me after dinner, why my shirt was inside out and started laughing. She thought I accidently