Re: Ethnomethodology

Read, Dwight ANTHRO (Read@ANTHRO.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU)
Sun, 13 Feb 1994 18:10:00 PST

Yoder writes:
"They [ethnomethodologists] argue that we should not
begin research from theoretical propositions, but rather
from observations, and discover what people have to know in
order to behave appropriately."

It might also be useful to note that many of the arguments that have arisen
recently in anthropology under the interpretive/post modern guise are a
rehash of arguments made by the ethnomethodologists in the 1960's.

D. Read
READ@ANTHRO.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU