Answer to Question #210822 in Sociology for Esko

Question

Mention and discuss two areas in which phenomenology and ethomethodology differ( in a greater detail). Phenomenology and ethnomethodology not ethnography.

Answer 1

Phenomenology comes from two Greek words phainómenon meaning "that which appears" and logos which means “study"). From the above description, phenomenology is the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness while ethnomethodology is the study of how social order is produced in and through processes of social interaction.

Both phenomenology and ethnomethodology differ in areas such as;

Firstly, ethnomethodology is the study of communities, and the work of an ethnographer while phenomenology is the study of phenomena; appearances of things or things as they appear in our experience of the ways we experience things.

Another area in which phenomenology and ethnomethodology differ is that Phenomenology suggests that all objects exist because people perceive and construct them as such while ethnomethodology argues that social reality and social facts are constructed, produced, and organized through the routine actions and circumstances of everyday life.