Hi! Ethnography primarily concerns itself with the prolonged study of a group of people. This generally involves immersion and participation in their day to day lives in an attempt to discover who they think they are, what they think they are doing and to what end they think they are doing it. Ethnography may involve many methodologies to accomplish this. Ethnomethodology, on the other hand, studies activities of group members to discover how they make sense of their surroundings. It specifically studies how individuals give sense to and accomplish their daily activities. It is not so much concerned with what they are doing but rather how they make sense of it. Cheers Sally On 31/03/2005, at 4:20 PM, Steffen Büffel wrote:

Hi all!

Thanks for the very helpful replies I got to my original posting(s). BTW: Sorry again for the multiple postings. Turned out that our server got bambarded with spam the last couple of days. Instead of 200 000 - 300 000 mails per day it had to process over 800 000 emails (!!!) which slowed it down quite a bit and gave users the impression that email were lost in the virtual nowhere.

Anyway, the replies I got raised another question for me, namely: What is the difference between ethnography and ethnomethodology? Of course I will go and check in the recommended readings myself but I thought that maybe this is an interessting issue for the list as well.

Cheers. Steffen -------------------------------------- wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter University of Trier - Media Studies phone +49 651 201 2273 fax +49 651 201 3741 mobile +49 176 2120 4435 icq 115761393 http://medien.uni-trier.de/132.0.html

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