ethnomethodology

noun

An academic discipline that attempts to understand the social orders people use to make sense of the world through analysing their accounts and descriptions of their day-to-day experiences.

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Meanings

nounethnomethodology (countable and uncountable, plural ethnomethodologies)

plural ethnomethodologies

  1. countableuncountableAn academic discipline that attempts to understand the social orders people use to make sense of the world through analysing their accounts and descriptions of their day-to-day experiences.

Origin

From ethno- + methodology.

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APA

ethnomethodology. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ethnomethodology

MLA

“ethnomethodology.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ethnomethodology. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ethnomethodology,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ethnomethodology.

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