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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An academic discipline that attempts to understand the social orders people use to make sense of the world through analysing their accounts and descriptions of their day-to-day experiences. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From ethno- + methodology.

Related phrases

day to day

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