ABSTRACT
Ethnomethodology(EM) is the study of societal members methods of making sense, where making sense refers to both the work through which members produce their actions as recognizable to others and the work by which members do the recognizing. Conversation analysis was developed by Harvey Sacks (1992) in relation to ethnomethodology (Garfinkel and Sacks 1970) and in collaboration with Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson. EM has had two emphases, namely, sequential analysis of the turn-taking system for conversation and derivative speech-exchange systems and membership categorization analysis of the terminology of person-description. Ethnomethodology and human rights sociology are simply two fundamentally different enterprises. EM is more akin to philosophy than to empirical science, there is a sense in which it is true to say that its "state" does not change. Harold Garfinkel states that "Ethnomethodology is NOT a corrective enterprise, NOT a rival science in the worldwide social science movement", it has nothing critical to teach human rights sociology.
