Sociologist Harold Garfinkel studied the ways in which people make sense of their lives and the world around them through the technique of violating everyday norms. What is the name of the subdiscipline he developed in this way?

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Sociologist Harold Garfinkel studied the ways in which people make sense of their lives  and the world around them through the technique of violating everyday norms. What is  the name of the subdiscipline he developed in this way?

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Harold Garfinkel developed the subdiscipline of ethnomethodology, which involves studying the methods people use to understand and produce the social order in their everyday lives, often by deliberately disrupting social norms to observe reactions.

Sociologist Harold Garfinkel Studied the Ways in Which People Make