Question

Harold Garfinkel conducted experiments in which students were encouraged to pursue the precise meaning of general or casual comments. The intent was to uncover the ________ that people use to structure and organize everyday conversation.

Answer 1

Answer:

Background expectancies

Explanation:

Harold Garfinkel conducted experiments in which students were encouraged to pursue the precise meaning of general or casual comments. The intent was to uncover the backgroung expectancies that people use to structure and organize everyday conversation

According to Garfinkel, the most efficient way to explore how ordinary members of the society produce and recognize the commonly known world of daily affairs is a deliberate breaching of background expectancies we rely on in everyday life. It is background expectancies that provides for the recognizability of routine situations as natural, unproblematic, taken-for-granted. These expectancies constitute what is known as “common sense,” and offer to what is happening its character of reality “known in common with others”. If these expectations are not met (as a result of a special procedure), people begin to make efforts to normalize what is happening, which suggest the sociologist how the daily life in society is organized. Through such breaching experiments Garfinkel shows what are the structural grounds of persons’ common understandings in communication and of systematic manifestations of social affects.

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer is: Background expectancies.

Explanation:

Backgroung expectancies is a term used in sociology that can be understood as norms that are implicit and preconditioned in everyday social interactions. Background expectancies are implicit norms that are in the background of daily situations such as going to the doctor's office and how one expects to be treated there and the conversations that one should expect in a doctor's office, and so on.

Harold Garfinkel conducted multiple experiments in which he evaluated this implicit norms and background expectancies.

In conclusion, the intent of his experiments was to uncover the background expectancies that people use to structure and organize everyday conversation.