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  1. The study of social order and routines used
  2. by people in their daily lives, to explain
  3. how everyday reality is created and
  4. perceived. Ethnomethodologists tend to use
  5. small-scale studies and experiments to
  6. examine the details of social life and
  7. structure (such as conversations) that people
  8. normally take for granted, rather than
  9. construct large-scale theories about society.
  10.