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CONVERSATIONAL ANALYSIS
Also known as sequential analysis. One of three central themes that are the focus of ethnomethodology, the other two being mundane reasoning and membership categorization. Sociologists typically examine talk or conversation as a resource to learn something of people's attitudes, the ways people's lives are structured and how people differ from each other in their values and assumptions. The ethnomethodologist, on the other hand, treats talk or conversation as a topic to learn how ordinary members of society use properties of talk (eg: its sequential properties) in order to do things with words. A great deal of research has been done on the structure of turn taking, story telling and openings. See: ETHNOMETHODOLOGY / .

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