Ethnomethodology
Due to a schedule conflict with my Chinese courses, I decided to take my first course of sociology independently. What this means is that I will study the course area and complete necessary coursework without attending any of the actual lessons. I thought it would be a great excercise in self discipline, and I even went as far as to think I might actually study the area faster and more efficiently than during class.
Now that I've started the project I'm not quite as sure as before. In addition to 50 pages of sociological gibberish forming the basis of my studies (the churning through of which is proving to be far more painstaking that I thought) I will have to write five one page essays and a minimum three page project on some dried-up sociologist to be presented to the rest of the class. Also, I will also be expected to know about the other dried-up sociologists covered in the presentations of other class members... projects which I won't actually witness since of course, I won't be attending the classes. Hopefully I will be able to scavange some of the obligatory handouts for the various projects.
Normally a course takes up about three hours and fortyfive minutes every week. Since an additional 3.75h of studying would be quite a challange with the temptations my home offers me, I plan on using my free mornings to study at school, as well as a skip lesson on Friday. This will in fact mean I will have four periods to study sociology every week. Although I have compensated for the extra time by indulging in the "aah I don't have to worry about it yet" mindset for the start of this period, and have thus tried to catch up at home with some success.
My first task is to grind through the information in the book, a task which would be quite challanging without constantly using Wikipedia and Dictionary.com to clear me up on odd words and concepts. For example the name of this post which I chose to avoid further creative thinking. I was going to tell you what ethnomethodoly was, but I can't remember anymore, so go and find out yourself lest you wish to be ravaged by the unbearable curiosity which would otherwise follow.
Sakari
2 Comments
Reader Comments (2)
Damn you and your riddles! And to make it worse, you even misspelled it in your title. Grr...
"Ethnomethodology (literally, 'the study of a people's (folk) methods') is a sociological discipline which examines the ways in which people make sense of their world, display this understanding to others, and produce the mutually shared social order in which they live."
So there. You know how to exploit curiosity...
aahaha oopsie