If realities are produced “from within”, by way of members interpretive procedures, members’ social circumstances are self-generating. This implicates two essential properties of meanings, revealed by ethnomethodological analysis. First, meaning are essencialy indexical, thati is, they depend on context. Objects and events have equivocal or indeterminate meanings without a visible context. It is only through their situated use in talk and interaction tha objects and events become concretely meaningful. Second, the circunstances that provide the context for meaning are themselves self-generating. Interpretive activities are simultaneously in and about the settings to witch they orient, an that they describe. Socially acomplished realities are thus reflexive; descriptive accounts of settings give shape to those setings while simultaneously being shaped by the settings they constitute. (HOLSTEIN; GUBRIUM, 1994, p. 265).
HOLSTEIN, James A.; GUBRIUM, Jaber F. Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology, and Interpretive Practice. In: DENZIN, Norman K.; LINCOLN, Yvonna S. (eds.) Handbook of Qualitative Research. London: Sage, 1994. p. 262-272.
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