Deck 10: Ethnomethodology

Question 1

Which type of ethnomethodological conversational analysis focuses on strategies different types of people use to become acquainted and engage in setting-talk?

A) Integration of talk and nonvocal activities
B) Initiating laughter
C) Doing shyness (and self-confidence)
D) Interactive emergence of sentences and stories

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following is a basic working principle of ethnomethodological conversation analysis? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Conversational analysis requires highly detailed data of what is said and things are said both verbally, and nonverbally.
B) Conversations are assumed to be orderly.
C) Conversations are autonomous entities created by actors.
D) Conversations are both shaped by their context while also shaping the context within which they unfold.

Answer 2

A, B, C, D

Question 3

According to ethnomethodologists, accounting is the process where people _____ specific situations. Select all, but only those that apply.

A) explain
B) describe
C) criticize
D) idealize

Answer 3

A, B, C, D

Question 4

Which of the following do ethnomethodologists regularly utilize for study? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Conversations
B) Organizations
C) Institutions
D) Structures

Question 5

Which of the following describes the ethnomethodological study of institutional settings?

A) Examinations of casual settings like the home.
B) Examinations of how people perform official tasks and thereby constitute social structures, formal rules, and official procedures.
C) Examinations of social reality through normative violations.
D) Examinations of how interactions are accomplished utilizing internal constraints.

Question 6

Which of the following is an institutional setting for an ethnomethodological study? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Homes
B) Courtrooms
C) Medical Providers
D) Police Departments

Question 7

Which type of ethnomethodological conversational analysis reveals the importance of introductions and recognitions of participants?

A) Telephone Conversations
B) Initiating Laughter
C) Generating Applause or Booing
D) Interactive Emergence of Sentences and Stories

Question 8

Which of the following describes ethnomethodological breaching experiments?

A) Examinations of casual settings like the home.
B) Examinations of how people perform official tasks, thereby constituting social structures, formal rules, and official procedures.
C) Examinations of social reality through normative violations.
D) Examinations of how interactions are accomplished utilizing internal constraints.

Question 9

Which type of ethnomethodological conversational analysis highlights how communications cannot be analyzed independently of their contexts, especially given how listeners' reactions dictate how those communications unfold?

A) Integration of talk and nonvocal activities
B) Initiating laughter
C) Telephone conversations
D) Interactive emergence of sentences and stories

Question 10

Which type of ethnomethodological conversational analysis reveals how the use of humor is highly structured rather than organic?

A) Telephone Conversations
B) Initiating laughter
C) Generating applause or booing
D) Interactive emergence of sentences and stories

Question 11

Which of the following have ethnomethodologists incorporated into their conversational analyses? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Sentences
B) Stories
C) Nonvocal activities
D) Shyness and self-confidence

Question 12

Ethnomethodological accounting practices are a process of _____.

A) offering explanations of situations
B) accepting or rejecting explanations of situations
C) judging the explanations of situations
D) remaining indifferent about the explanations of situations

Question 13

Which type of ethnomethodological conversational analysis reveals a collective declaration of disagreement and disaffiliation?

A) Integration of talk and nonvocal activities
B) Initiating laughter
C) Booing
D) Interactive emergence of sentences and stories

Question 14

According to ethnomethodologists, accounts are the _____.

A) capital earned from interactions
B) dividends paid out by macro-level structures
C) explanations people develop to make sense of social situations
D) declarations of membership we hold in organizations

Question 15

Which of the following describes the ethnomethodological analysis of conversations?

A) Examinations of casual settings like the home.
B) Examinations of how people perform official tasks and thereby constituting social structures, formal rules, and official procedures.
C) Examinations of social reality through normative violations.
D) Examinations of how interactions are accomplished utilizing internal constraints.

Question 16

Which type of ethnomethodological conversational analysis highlights how activities like body posture and facial expression (or lack thereof) as integral parts of communication?

A) Integration of talk and nonvocal activities
B) Initiating laughter
C) Telephone conversations
D) Interactive emergence of sentences and stories

Question 17

Ethnomethodological accounting is a process of _____.

A) offering explanations of situations
B) accepting or rejecting explanations of situations
C) judging the explanations of explanations
D) remaining indifferent about the explanations of situations

Question 18

Which of the following have ethnomethodologists incorporated into their conversational analyses? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Telephone Conversations
B) Laughter
C) Applause
D) Booing

Question 19

Which type of ethnomethodological conversational analysis reveals how speakers' generate positive responses from audiences?

A) Telephone Conversations
B) Initiating Laughter
C) Generating Applause
D) Interactive Emergence of Sentences and Stories

Question 20

Ethnomethodological indifference is a process of _____.

A) offering explanations of situations
B) accepting or rejecting explanations of situations
C) judging the explanations of situations
D) remaining neutral when analyzing explanations of situations

Question 21

Which of the following describes ethnomethodologists' critique that sociologists confusing of topic and resource?

A) Sociologists impose their own ideas on social reality rather than let the study of everyday life guide the construction of their ideas about reality.
B) Sociologists need to utilize more statistical methods rather than rely on qualitative research.
C) Sociologists utilize daily life as a resource (mainly in the form of data) yet seldom consider daily life worthy of study in and of itself.
D) Sociologists wrongly assume social order is an accomplishment of social actors rather than a reality in itself.

Question 22

Which of the following describes ethnomethodologists' critique that sociologists confusing of topic and resource?

A) Sociologists impose their own ideas on social reality rather than let the study of everyday life guide the construction of their ideas about reality.
B) Sociologists need to utilize more statistical methods rather than rely on qualitative research.
C) Sociologists utilize daily life as a topic yet seldom consider daily life an appropriate resource.
D) Sociologists wrongly assume social order is a reality in itself when it is actually an accomplishment of social actors.

Question 23

According to ethnomethodologists, which types of conversations are highly organized and structured as to minimize conflict?

A) Job interviews
B) Executive negotiations
C) Calls to emergency centers
D) Dispute resolution in mediation hearings

Question 24

According to ethnomethodological analysis, a _____ generates applause by first proposing a conundrum, then a solution.

A) headline-punch line
B) contrast
C) list
D) puzzle-solution

Question 25

According to Angela Garcia, how does mediation allow participants to resolve arguments while still retaining face?

A) Accusations and denials are integrated and incorporated.
B) Denials to accusations are indirect, or made through mediator inquires.
C) There are immediate responses to every accusation.
D) Accusation and denials are mitigated in being made explicit.

Question 26

What is a critique levied at ethnomethodology? Select all, but only those apply.

A) Ethnomethodology focuses on the trivial matters of daily life rather than more important and consequential things like social problems.
B) In focusing on the structure and organization of daily life, ethnomethodology abandoned examinations of cognition and consciousness.
C) Ethnomethodologists have yet to link their tradition to macro-level sociology.
D) There is a growing uneasiness between ethnomethodology and conversation analysis which in some respects are becoming traditions in and of themselves.

Question 27

According to ethnomethodological analysis, a _____ generates applause by outlining a category of points, usually in sets of three.

A) headline-punch line
B) contrast
C) list
D) puzzle-solution

Question 28

According to Angela Garcia, how does mediation allow participants to resolve arguments while still retaining face?

A) Accusations and denials are integrated and incorporated.
B) Denials to accusations are direct.
C) Delays between accusations and responses minimize the overall number of disputes to resolve.
D) Accusation and denials are mitigated in being made explicit.

Question 29

According to Angela Garcia, how does mediation allow participants to resolve arguments while still retaining face? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Accusations and denials are isolated to minimize escalation.
B) Denials to accusations are indirect, or made through mediator inquires.
C) Delays between accusations and responses minimize the overall number of disputes to resolve.
D) Accusation and denials are mitigated in being made implicit.

Question 30

According to Angela Garcia, how does mediation allow participants to resolve arguments while still retaining face?

A) Accusations and denials are isolated to minimize escalation.
B) Denials to accusations are direct.
C) There are immediate responses to every accusation.
D) Accusation and denials are mitigated in being made explicit.

Question 31

Which of the following describes ethnomethodologists' critique that sociologists are separated from the social?

A) Sociologists deconstruct everyday life rather than construct it.
B) Sociologists are over-reliant on statistical methods and concepts that impose definition on social reality rather than guiding the understanding of social reality.
C) Sociologists utilize daily life as a resource (mainly in the form of data) yet seldom consider daily life worthy of study in and of itself.
D) Sociologists wrongly assume social order is a reality in itself when it is actually an accomplishment of social actors.

Question 32

According to ethnomethodologists, what type of conversations is reasonable, detached, and impersonal?

A) Job interviews
B) Executive negotiations
C) Calls to emergency centers
D) Dispute resolution in mediation hearings

Question 33

According to ethnomethodological analysis, a _____ generates applause by emphasizing a positive point after putting forth a negative one.

A) headline-punch line
B) contrast
C) list
D) puzzle-solution

Question 34

Which of the following describes ethnomethodologists' critique that sociologists are separated from the social?

A) Sociologists impose their own ideas on social reality rather than let the study of everyday life guide the construction of their ideas about reality.
B) Sociologists need to utilize more statistical methods rather than rely on qualitative research.
C) Sociologists utilize daily life as a resource (mainly in the form of data) yet seldom consider daily life worthy of study in and of itself.
D) Social order is not a reality in itself but rather is an accomplishment of social actors.

Question 35

According to ethnomethodological analysis, a _____ generates applause by neutrally defining a state of affairs and then affirming a stance on those affairs.

A) headline-punch line
B) position taking
C) contrasting
D) puzzle-solution

Question 36

According to ethnomethodologists, what type of conversations have an order or a structure (especially regarding whose turn it is to speak) that takes precedence over the things said?

A) Job interviews
B) Executive negotiations
C) Calls to emergency centers
D) Dispute resolution in mediation hearings

Question 37

According to ethnomethodologists, which types of conversations lack openings where both parties try to recognize one another?

A) Job interviews
B) Executive negotiations
C) Calls to emergency centers
D) Dispute resolution in mediation hearings

Question 38

According to ethnomethodological analysis, a _____ generates applause by first alluding to a statement, and then making it.

A) headline-punch line
B) contrast
C) list
D) puzzle-solution

Question 39

According to Angela Garcia, how does mediation allow participants to resolve arguments while still retaining face?

A) Accusations and denials are integrated and incorporated.
B) Denials to accusations are direct.
C) There are immediate responses to every accusation.
D) Accusation and denials are mitigated in being made implicit.

Question 40

According to ethnomethodological analysis, a _____ generates applause restates a general point after audiences initially fail to respond.

A) pursuit
B) position taking
C) contrasting
D) puzzle-solution

Question 41

In some respects, ethnomethodologists are interested in neither micro structures nor macrostructures.

Question 42

What is a critique levied at ethnomethodology? Select all, but only those apply.

A) Ethnomethodology is overly focused on social problems rather than the important aspects of daily life.
B) In focusing on cognition and consciousness, ethnomethodology ignores the structure and organization of daily life.
C) Ethnomethodologists have yet to link their tradition to macro-level sociology.
D) Ethnomethodology is overly-reliant on institutional study and thereby ignores conversation analysis.

Question 43

Harold Garfinkle's ethnomethodological study of a woman named Angus revealed that gender is largely determined by the biology of our body.

Question 44

What is a critique levied at ethnomethodology? Select all, but only those apply.

A) Ethnomethodology is overly focused on social problems rather than the important aspects of daily life.
B) In focusing on cognition and consciousness, ethnomethodology ignores the structure and organization of daily life.
C) Ethnomethodologists have yet to link their tradition to micro-level sociology.
D) There is a growing uneasiness between ethnomethodology and conversation analysis which in some respects, are becoming traditions in and of themselves.

Question 45

Sociologists only analyze accounts, they do not offer them.

Question 46

Ethnomethodology is one of the least diverse theoretical traditions.

Question 47

Ethnomethodologists ignore how accounts are rejected by others.

Question 48

Breaching experiments are undertaken to illustrate the way people order their everyday lives.

Question 49

Ethnomethodology literally refers to the "methods" people use practically approach and accomplish daily life.

Question 50

According to ethnomethodologists, sociologists can remain unobtrusive or are able to study social life without influencing it.

Question 51

As intended by Durkheim, ethnomethodology is macro-sociological in its approach to social facts.

Question 52

According to ethnomethodologists, sociologists change social life in the process of studying it.

Question 53

Ethnomethodologists are concerned with the ways individuals produce both macro and micro level practices.

Question 54

Ethnomethodologists can study the accounts offered by sociologists.

Question 55

According to ethnomethodologists, external constraints like social structures and institutional rules are adequate explanations of human behavior.

Question 56

What is a critique levied at ethnomethodology? Select all, but only those apply.

A) Ethnomethodology is overly focused on social problems rather than the important aspects of daily life.
B) In focusing on the structure and organization of daily life, ethnomethodology abandoned examinations of cognition and consciousness.
C) Ethnomethodologists have yet to link their tradition to micro-level sociology.
D) Ethnomethodology is overly-reliant on institutional study and thereby ignores conversation analysis.

Question 57

What is a critique levied at ethnomethodology? Select all, but only those apply.

A) Ethnomethodology focuses on the trivial matters of daily life rather than more important and consequential things like social problems.
B) In focusing on cognition and consciousness, ethnomethodology ignores the structure and organization of daily life.
C) Ethnomethodologists have yet to link their tradition to micro-level sociology.
D) Ethnomethodology is overly-reliant on institutional study and thereby ignores conversation analysis.

Question 58

Harold Garfinkle's ethnomethodological study of a woman named Angus revealed that gender is not determined by biology but is instead a practice people reflexively accomplish in daily life.

Question 59

Ethnomethodologists ignore how accounts are offered and accepted by others.

Question 60

Which of the following describes Hilbert's radical reconciliation of the macro-micro order?

A) Ethnomethodology should focus only on the macro level.
B) Ethnomethodology should focus only on the micro level.
C) Ethnomethodology should focus on institutional analysis.
D) Ethnomethodology should recognize there is no distinction between the micro and macro levels because each is simultaneously generated in daily life.

Question 61

According to ethnomethodologists, confidence and shyness are psychological character traits.

Question 62

Ethnomethodology is fraught with internal and external strains and stressors.

Question 63

What would an ethnographic conversational analysis of a discussion that takes place via text messages likely reveal?

Question 64

Ethnomethodology sees people as accomplishing their everyday lives through a variety of artful practices.

Question 65

According to ethnomethodologists, self-confidence is a conversational procedure that people do or engage in.

Question 66

Ethnomethodologists are quite willing to have other theorists integrate ethnomethodological perspectives, but they seem far less eager to reciprocate.

Question 67

Ethnomethodology is the study of the everyday practices used by the ordinary members of society in order to deal with their day-to-day lives.

Question 68

Some ethnomethodologists argue the tradition has the radical reflexivity, or the assumption everything is a social accomplishment that once made ethnomethodology unique.

Question 69

Do you agree or disagree with ethnomethodologists' argument that sociologists cannot study social life without changing it in the process?

Question 70

Ethnomethodologists tend to be strong advocates of mainstream sociology.

Question 71

Review the Code of Ethics outlined by The American Sociological Association and then in a short essay explain whether or not breaching experiments are ethical.

Question 72

Find a short discussion in a film or television show and then conduct an ethnomethodological conversational analysis in order to uncover how people go about accomplishing daily life.

Question 73

Ethnomethodologists tend to be highly critical of mainstream sociology.

Question 74

Pollner thinks ethnomethodology is too radical and reflexive.

Question 75

According to ethnomethodologists, shyness is a conversational procedure that people do or engage in.