Ethnomethodology Experiment. an essay on an Ethnomethodology experiment, taking people out of their every day norms.

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My own personal experiment with "Ethnomethodology", the study of the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings. My job was to find or create an experiment and break all the conventional norms and observe how people would react. Experiment #1 took place Saturday February 15, 2003. My family and I have wanted to visit the J. Paul Getty Museum for some time now; we just have never had time to go as a family. That all changed …

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…they were going to try to squeeze in here" Every body in the elevator began to laugh. I think everybody in the elevator was thinking the same thing, but everybody was just waiting for somebody to say something. Overall both experiments worked well, I guess a lot of people do not pay attention to the social rules until they are broken. Most people in general do not like it when you change their everyday surroundings.