Sociology of Everyday LifeSociology is considered the study of human social life in the context of individuals, groups and societies. By promoting different aspects of sociology, sociologists have developed various theories that expose human relationships in their daily activities. This essay aims to identify the relationship between the theory of symbolic interactionism and the foundation of routine activities, ethnomethodology as described by Harold Garfinkel and Herbert Blumer. Harold discusses ethnomethodology as a means by which people make meaning and find ways to act in their daily activities. It considers the different parameters that dictate stable characteristics of daily activities. First, he considers that there must be common familiar variables such as the familiar household and suggests that these variables remain insignificant in his study. From these variables, a set of considerations are unexamined: seen but unnoticed (Garfinkel, 1968, p. 276). To understand these standardized and non-standardized variables, there must be an outsider who notices the daily activities of a certain group, which common members do not notice. Symbolic interactionism aims to understand human conduct within a broader social concept of group interactionism. Within the framework of symbolic interactionism, Herbert seeks to identify how human group life and social action coexist in society. He recognizes four main central views about symbolic interactionism, which are crucial to understanding his propositions. People, individually or collectively, are prepared to act based on the meaning of the objects that make up their world (Blumer, 1969, p. 67). People's interactions usually occur in processes where they give cues to one...... middle of paper ...... human interactions since humans try to interpret the actions of others instead of react to them as ethnomethodology suggests. broader sociological concept, it is important to integrate all concepts intended to define human interactions. More broadly, all sociological theories aim to define a certain concept important to society. Now the concept of studying human actions and interactions should be part of the natural course of life. It is a general fact that human interactions are classified into small groups in society, some of which remain unnoticed even by group members. ReferencesBlumer, H. (1969). Symbolic interactionism; perspective and method. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Garfinkel, H. (1968). Ethnomethodological studies of work. London: Routledge and K.Paul.