Yep, Ethnomethodology...what to say about Ethnomethodology...where to start. Incase you haven't guessed yet I'm a little vague on this weeks topic. But I'm gonna figure it out as I write this. On a not completely unrelated note I can't seem to find this weeks reading...that may be a problem, but I'll make do for now. Neverind, we're all working now.
Actually, this may work as an example of some of this stuff. Right now as I began this, I attempted to log in to sols and then elearning to access this weeks reading, much to my annoyance the elearning site, and then a moment later when trying again the sols one as well, wouldn't load, but every other site I have open at the moment is working perfectly. This prompted me to try and come up with reasons why this could be happening, obviously it wasn't something on my end (atleast that's my thinking) so then it must have been something on the universities end that was causing only those pages to mess up, I came to this conclusion because it was the only thing which made sense in the situation.
We as people do this with everything. Because we have certain pieces of knowledge into how things are supposed to work (Our Recipe Knowledge for those of you who are gonna want to see the actual terms used), when they don't we are forced to come up with explanations in order to make sense of whats going on around us no matter how insane or random those things seem. Examples of this phenomena going on can be seen in Garfinkel's Breaching Experiments. The aim of these experiments is to break the rules of social interactions in order to see what they are. For example, in today's tute we took part in a Breaching Experiment, in which the group I was assigned to aimed to simply annoy the hell out of the other's in the class. While some of the student's did actually notice, and get annoyed and frustrated, by what we were doing, none of them actually did anything about it. This is fairly typical of us as humans, particularly amongst people who we aren't completely familiar with. In order to avoid a possibly uncomfortable situation, and possibly as a face saving excersise (yeah see, linking this shit together), we ignore these things. Another possibility though is that we simply, as mentioned above, try to make sense out of these situations, "surely they aren't deliberately being annoying, there must be some other reason".
And now, just because I like the word, a quick definition of Haecceity, I intend to use more than the word thisness to do this. Haecceity dates back to medieval philosophy were it was first used by John Duns Scotus (I may or may not be spelling that wrong), despite its impossible-to-say-without-prior-knowledge-ness the idea behind Haecceity is actual rather simple, it relates to the specific aspects of a thing which make it that thing, so somethings Haecceity is it's 'thisness', what makes it it.
And that ladies and gents, is the end of my possibly nonsensical post about Ethnomethodology...
But you'll try and make sense of it
Edit: I commented on a post this week, dunno how relevant it is, I think I mostly ended up going on about Alice in Wonderland...but i quoted Einstein!
http://bea091.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/wk7-garfinkel-alice-in-wonderland.html?showComment=1346919120144
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