Telling the code: Instructions for interpretation (Continued)
Telling the code was a way of doing "folk sociology," initially done by residents, then subsequently adopted as "professional sociology" by researchers
The ethnomethodological alternative is to analyze the telling of he code as constitutive activity
He frames telling the code as a set of actions that have immediate consequences within the circumstances o the telling
the code is used to constitute what is deviant and what is not; it does not simply lead members to be deviant