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Breaching experiments are most commonly associated with ethnomethodology, and in particular the work of Harold Garfinkel. Breaching experiments involve the conscious exhibition of "unexpected" behavior/violation of social norms, an observation of the types of social reactions such behavioral violations engender, and an analysis of the social ...
Harold Garfinkel (October 29, 1917 – April 21, 2011) [2] was an American sociologist and ethnomethodologist, who taught at the University of California, Los Angeles.Having developed and established ethnomethodology as a field of inquiry in sociology, he is probably best known for Studies in Ethnomethodology (1967), a collection of articles.
Breaching experiment A method for revealing, or exposing, the common work that is performed by members of particular social groups in maintaining a clearly recognisable and shared social order . For example, driving the wrong way down a busy one-way street can reveal myriads of useful insights into the patterned social practices, and moral ...
"Behavioral sink" is a term invented by ethologist John B. Calhoun to describe a collapse in behavior that can result from overpopulation.The term and concept derive from a series of over-population experiments Calhoun conducted on Norway rats between 1958 and 1962. [1]
Agnes is the pseudonym given to a transgender woman who participated in Harold Garfinkel's research in the early 1960s, making her the first subject of an in-depth discussion of transgender identity in sociology. [1] She is the subject of a 2018 documentary short and a 2022 documentary, both titled Framing Agnes. [2] [3]
2 Garfinkel. 3 Earl R. Babbie cite. 1 comment. 4 "Boiling Points" 2 comments. 5 Literalist and elevator. 2 comments. 6 Example 1 in Action. ... Talk: Breaching ...
The experiments were recorded by the monk Salimbene di Adam in his Chronicles, who was generally extremely negative about Fredrick II (portraying his calamities as parallel to the Biblical plagues in The Twelve Calamities of Emperor Frederick II) and wrote that Frederick encouraged "foster-mothers and nurses to suckle and bathe and wash the ...
Microsociology exists both as an umbrella term for perspectives which focus on agency, such as Max Weber's theory of social action, and as a body of distinct techniques, particularly in American sociology.