ABSTRACT
The purpose of ethnomethodology is to shed light on the stable characteristics of everyday activities, for they are characterized by their uniformity, reproducibility and typicality, apart from the local context in which they are produced. According to ethnomethodologists, the method called 'documentary interpretation' is uniquely adequate to understanding what the members do and say in a particular environment, since those members make use of it in giving a sense to their interactions with the others. The ethnomethodologists' interest is addressed to the way in which a meaning context is formed rather than to the reason why it has been formed in that way, considering the external, social and cultural constraints, as well as the expectations and identities of the actors. Ethnomethodology aims at radically setting itself against the typical investigation ways, or methods that belong to traditional sociology. The interest of ethnomethodology is focused on the interpretative procedures by which social actors and observers provide interactions with a meaning.
