Telling the code: Instructions for interpretation (Continued)
In ethnomethodological idiom, research subjects do not merely inform the researcher of their social world (as the naturalist might contend), they also communicatively constitute the gamut of structures of those social worlds
Let us examine the range of "work" that a single utterance can accomplish. When talking with residents, staff and I often had a relatively friendly line of conversation terminated by a resident saying, "You know I won't snitch." Hearnig such an utterance functioned to recrystallize the immediate interaction as the present center of one's experiential world. "You know I won't multiformulated the immediate environment, its surrounding social structures , and the connections between this interaction and the surrounding social structures.