Walking with an open umbrella on a beautiful day or going home on semester break and calling your mom or dad Mr. or Mrs. (with their surname)are techniques used by _____ to understand social norms or rules.
A)structural functionalists
B)conflict theorists
C)feminists
D)ethnomethodologists
E)critical race theorists

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Ethnomethodologists study how individuals make sense of their social world and identify the unwritten, taken-for-granted rules that guide social interactions. Walking with an open umbrella on a beautiful day or calling your parent Mr. or Mrs. (with their surname) are examples of breaching experiments, which are used by ethnomethodologists to intentionally violate these unwritten rules in order to reveal them. Structural functionalists focus on how different parts of society work together to maintain stability, conflict theorists focus on how power struggles and inequality shape society, feminists focus on how gender influences society, and critical race theorists focus on how race impacts society.

Walking with an Open Umbrella on a Beautiful Day or Going