truth.Coherence is the second feature of reality. It is a reality based on one’s beliefs. “Coherence can be found upon analysis. The coherence located in a reality is found there by ethnomethodologist’s interaction work. The coherence feature, like all other features of realities, operates as an incorrigible proposition, reflexivity sustained” (Mehan & Wood, Five Features of Reality, 57). Coherence is also an organized group of knowledge. In an individual, “normality (and presumably abnormality) is distinct enough that is can be recognized wherever it occurs, for it is carried within the person” (D.L. Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places, p.112). As explained in “ Social Construction of Unreality”, “Mary’s family would establish a definition of the immediate situation and use it as a frame of reference for interpreting and describing any and all of Mary’s subsequent behavior” (Pollner & McDonald-Wikler, 124). At a later point, Mary was diagnosed as being retarded; at this point the family’s incorrigible proposition has not changed. Therefore one’s belief builds one’s reality. Sometimes because of human interaction one might change their belief and may begin to judge something according to whom they interact with. “The interaction feature indicates a reality and its signs are mutually determinative, alone neither expresses sense intertwining through the course of indexical interaction they form a life” (Mehan & Wood, Five Features of Reality, 60). This reality has been produced through interaction, which is also a feature of reality. For instance, in Mary’s situation, her parent’s believed that she was a very intelligent girlwho just wanted to embarrass the family in public. “Family member stated that Mary was a verbal and intelligent child who malingered and refused to speak in public in order to embarras...
