Ethnomethodology and the Micro-Macro Order

Abstract

Within the micro-macro debate, ethnomethodology is generally cast as microsociology. This is misleading given that ethnomethodology is indifferent to structure at any level. Instead, ethnomethodology transcends the terms of the debate with a focus on empirical social practices whereby both microstructure and macrostructure are produced by and for the membership. This is also true of conversation analysis. Modifying Collins's interaction ritual chains to include this indifference to structure expands ethnomethodological understanding as well as Collins's theory.