This weeks discussion will be framed around “doing” sociology. As critics claim, ethnomethodology is not about “high theory” (which we could debate). Rather, it is an intellectual force that entails doing sociological research to the finest level of detail. Ethnomethodology induces us out of the world of ideas, and into the worlds of observation, data collection, natural experiments, and field notes. To that end, please answer any one of these prompts:

1.) Try your own breaching experiment. Do not overtly offend the existing, omnipresent, taken-for-granted moral routines of life (anyone can be vulgar and rude). However, pick an everyday “invisible” social norm of interaction (e.g. turn-taking in conversation or something like the “boarder” breach), and slightly breach it. Please relay initial reactions, both from yourself and other(s).

2.) Recount a particular moment of breaching in your life or interpersonal relationship(s). After recounting this moment, please spend time unpacking the social affects/emotions and other actions that you and others performed in making the moral world accountable and routine-like again. (Minimum – 400 words