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Explain Goffman's contribution to ethnomethodology.

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Goffman primarily analyzes the interaction order, constituting day-to-day and face-to-face interaction among acting individuals. Recognizes other orders and the structures associated with class, power, norms and roles, but considers these flexib le. Goffman is interested in how these are carried out in practice, that is, how the roles are performed, and it is the flexibility of these that characterizes daily life and is the expression of individual personalities. Social change and social mobility may also result from these aspects of role performance, although Goffman does not focus on this. But where a role is interpreted in many ways, or norms are stretched, this may lead to new roles and norms. For the individual, structures are a constraint, but they also present opportunities, and it is in role performance that these opportunities may be expressed..

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