ABSTRACT
Ethnomethodology is an Anglo-American movement, like symbolic interactionism. Its founder is Harold Garfinkel. At least, it was Garfinkel who coined the term ‘ethnomethodology’. Before he did, however, he was a pupil of both Parsons and Schutz. Since ethnomethodology is usually considered to be a development of phenomenology, it would seem that he sided with Schutz against Parsons, even though he wrote his dissertation for the latter. Be that as it may, ethnomethodology is, at least to some extent, a result of Garfinkel’s critical encounter with the structural-functional theory of his teacher Talcott Parsons.30
