Overview
Write a short essay (4-5 pages) on one of the following topics; the essay should be typed (using a 12-point font), double-spaced, and with 1" margins. Please be sure to cite lecture and text(s) appropriately. You are REQUIRED to use appropriate citation practices and include a bibliography listing the sources you have cited.
Please indicate the question you are answering on the first page of your essay. It is essential that you answer the question indicated on that page. You should definitely avoid giving your essay some alternative title and writing about that instead.
NOTE: You should use ethnomethodological concepts in formulating your answer to one of the following questions. For example, you might consider whether one or more of the following would be useful: (a) the Documentary Method of Interpretation, (b) Garfinkel's observations regarding the use of rules to interpret -- or make sense of -- action, (c) the role of background knowledge, (d) the problem of intersubjectivity, or (e) the "accountability" of action, including how rule/norms are kept in "good repair" through the use of accounts and explanations.
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In Telling the Code Wieder gives an account of how the norms of the 'convict code' structure social reality inside a "halfway house." Describe how this structuring is done. How does Wieder's account differ from more conventional normative explanations of social action?