The median weekly earnings of fulltime workers ages 25 and over ...

[Jkov05]

The median weekly earnings of fulltime workers ages 25 and over who had not completed high school (in 2012) was _____.
 
  a. 106
  b. 253
  c. 459
  d. 478

Question 2

Describe ethnomethodology and note its strengths.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[krakiolit]

Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

Ethnomethodology is the study of the commonsense knowledge that people use to understand the situations in which they find themselves. Sociologist Harold Garfinkel initiated this approach because he was critical of mainstream sociology for not recognizing the ongoing ways in which people create reality and produce their own world. Consequently, ethnomethodologists examine existing patterns of conventional behavior in order to uncover people's background expectanciesthat is, their shared interpretations of objects and events, as well as their resulting actions. According to ethnomethodologists, interaction is based on assumptions of shared expectancies. To uncover people's background expectancies, ethnomethodologists frequently break rules or act as though they do not understand some basic rule of social life so that they can observe other people's responses. The ethnomethodological approach contributes to our knowledge of social interaction by making us aware of subconscious social realities in our daily lives.