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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Do you think ethnomethodology helps us in getting reliable and valid data? Justify your answer.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Sociology as a Science

Harold Garfinkel founded ethnomethodology to study not the causes of behaviour but the taken-for-granted methods ordinary members use, moment to moment, to produce and recognise social order as sensible, orderly, and accountable.

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  • What Ethnomethodology Actually Studies
  • The Case for High Validity
  • The Case Against Reliability
  • A Deeper Complication: The Criteria Are Themselves Members' Accomplishments

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