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To: LLCF who wrote (11620)	5/19/2006 4:00:40 PM
From: LoneClone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78414

My favorite branch of sociology back in the day was something called ethnomethodology, which aside from some great jargon had some interesting ideas. For instance, a quantitative sociologist creates a survey and collects the answers to support or disprove a theory, and discards answers that don't fit into his or her predetermined categories or just groups them under "No answer" or "None of the above". The ethnomethodologist says that the stuff the quantitative researcher throws away yields the most useful insights, because from the "debris" you can glean clues to the underlying assumptions/worldviews of both the researcher and the person who fills out the questionnaire. I realize now that ethnomethodology was the first strain of postmodern influence on mainstream social science in the 1970s, but back in those days noone in North America had heard of postmodernism. You are right, it all circles back around. LC