Ethnomethodology

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Ethnomethodology is an approach in the sociology introduced by the American sociologist Harold Garfinkel. It also find its origin in Talcott Parsons's functionalist sociology. Max Weber, Alfred Schutz, Emile Durkheim and Aron Gurwitsch were other important people which helped to develop ethnomethodolgy. The term 'ethnomethodology' was introduced by Garfinkel when he was preparing one of his journals.