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For this exercise will need to violate a gender norm (without breaking the law or getting yourself in trouble!). You can easily violate a gender norm at home (although you need the reaction of others). Break an unspoken rule, act ambiguously or inappropriately, or bring the context to the forefront or into awareness. answer following questions.

What was your experiment?

What did you observe about the interaction? How did others respond?

Did you decide to let others in on the experiment? Why or Why not? What was their response?

What have you learned from the experiment?

Ethnomethodology (literally meaning 'the study of the people's methods') is a sociological method interested in the way people make sense of the world and display their understandings of it. The approach was developed by Harold Garfinkel and focuses on the maintenance of social order. Since this involves the taken for granted, ethnomethodologists use a research method that 'breaches' or 'breaks' the everyday routine of interaction in order to reveal the work that goes into maintaining the normal flow of life.

By showing how people can give meaning to an intrinsically meaningless situation, Garfinkel provided insight into the creation and maintenance of reality in everyday life. One of the taken-for-granted assumptions we make in social interaction is that events are relatively orderly and predictable. Thus, we attempt to always make sense out of even the most confusing developments.