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Ethnomethodological analysis in the humanities and social sciences in Ecuadorian education

Abstract:

The analytical ethnomethodological approach allows for obtaining relevant information through an in-depth unstructured interview and the analysis of interviewees' data in a qualitative research approach. Moreover, it helps to delineate the different ways in which people conceptualise attitudes and behaviour in a delimited geographical environment of the object of study. Ethnomethodology facilitates the interpretation and perception of a given phenomenon that appears to be intertwined with several others when researched. The objective of this article was to conceptualise the analytical ethnomethodological approach applied at the Universidad Tecnica de Manabi UTM when developing studies under the qualitative approach in areas related to humanistic and social sciences. The study was established under the qualitative paradigm. The design was ethnographic. It was carried out at UTM with the participation of 15 students from the Faculty of Social Work and 5 teachers from the Faculty of Humanistic and Social Sciences. For the collection of information, a semi-structured interview and a bibliographical documentary review were used. For the analysis of the information obtained, the triangulation of the results was applied. The findings revealed that, due to the non-explicit nature of ethnomethodology in the Ecuadorian curriculum policy, the phenomenon of qualitative analysis was conceived, conceptualised and perceived differently by teachers according to their academic and professional background.