Ethnomethodological Description
Conventional sociology, including naturalism, might focus on rules, norms and statuses as explanations for patterned behavior
Ethnomethodological focuses on how members, by invoking rules and elaborating their application to specific cases, describe and constitute their activities as rational, coherent, precedented, and orderly
Wieder's Language and Social Reality (1988[1974]) is a study of the informal rules governing conduct in a halfway house for convicted narcotics offenders.
Wieder intentionally contrasts naturalistic and ethnomethodological approaches