Harold Garfinkel: Studies of Work in the Sciences

Harold Garfinkel: Studies of Work in the Sciences
Author: Harold Garfinkel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2022-04-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000557111

This volume includes an unpublished manuscript and selected portions of five seminars by Harold Garfinkel – the founder of ethnomethodology – on the topic of practices in the natural sciences and mathematics. The volume provides a coherent and sustained account of his program for the study of ordinary and specialized social actions. Presenting broader theoretical and methodological initiatives, as well as discussions and summaries of exemplary studies of social phenomena within and beyond the sciences, this work dates to the period in the 1980s during which the field of Science and Technology Studies was taking shape, with ethnomethodological studies of scientific practice forming a major part of its development at the time. Aside from their historical importance, the manuscript and seminars present a distinctive perspective on the natural and social sciences that remains highly original and pertinent to research on science, social science, and everyday life today. Offering critical insights and proposals relating to developments in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, this volume will appeal to scholars of Sociology and Science and Technology Studies with interests in the work of Garfinkel. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Ethnomethodology's Program

Ethnomethodology's Program
Author: Harold Garfinkel
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2002
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780742516427

Since the 1967 publication of Studies in Ethnomethodology, Harold Garfinkel has indelibly influenced the social sciences and humanities worldwide. This new book, the long-awaited sequel to Studies, comprises Garfinkel's work over three decades to further elaborate the study of ethnomethodology. 'Working out Durkheim's Aphorism, ' the title used for this new book, emphasizes Garfinkel's insistence that his position focuses on fundamental sociological issues--and that interpretations of his position as indifferent to sociology have been misunderstandings. Durkheim's aphorism states that the concreteness of social facts is sociology's most fundamental phenomenon. Garfinkel argues that sociologists have, for a century or more, ignored this aphorism and treated social facts as theoretical, or conceptual, constructions. Garfinkel in this new book shows how and why sociology must restore Durkheim's aphorism, through an insistence on the concreteness of social facts that are produced by complex social practices enacted by participants in the social order. Garfinkel's new book, like Studies, will likely stand as another landmark in sociological theory, yet it is clearer and more concrete in revealing human social practices.

Harold Garfinkel

Harold Garfinkel
Author: Dirk vom Lehn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2016-09-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 131542763X

This book is a concise intellectual biography of Harold Garfinkel, a key figure in 20th-century social science. Garfinkel is practically synonymous with ethnomethodology, an approach that since the 1960s has led to major analytic and methodological developments in sociology and other disciplines. This introduction to Garfinkel explores how he developed ethnomethodology under the influence of Talcott Parsons and Alfred Schutz, situates it within sociology generally, and demonstrates its important influence on recent developments in the discipline, particularly the sociology of science and technology, gender studies, organization studies, and the computer sciences. The book will be of wide interest in the social sciences and a useful supplement to courses on intellectual history and methodology.

Harold Garfinkel

Harold Garfinkel
Author: Michael Lynch
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2003-05-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Harold Garfinkel is one of a handful of sociologists to have founded a major sociological research programme. He coined the term ethnomethodology that still continues to be taken up in the social science today. This set discusses Garfinkel's intellectual biography and critically reviews his contribution.

Toward A Sociological Theory of Information

Toward A Sociological Theory of Information
Author: Harold Garfinkel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317250257

In 1952 at Princeton University, Harold Garfinkel developed a sociological theory of information. Other prominent theories then being worked out at Princeton, including game theory, neglected the social elements of "information," modeling a rational individual whose success depends on completeness of both reason and information. In real life these conditions are not possible and these approaches therefore have always had limited and problematic practical application. Garfinkel's sociological theory treats information as a thoroughly organized social phenomenon in a way that addresses these shortcomings comprehensively. Although famous as a sociologist of everyday life, Garfinkel focuses in this new book-never before published-on the concerns of large-scale organization and decisionmaking. In the fifty years since Garfinkel wrote this treatise, there has been no systematic treatment of the problems and issues he raises. Nor has anyone proposed a theory of information like the one he proposed. Many of the same problems that troubled theorists of information and predictable order in 1952 are still problematic today.

Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences

Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences
Author: Graham Button
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1991-08-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521389525

Through its empirical inquiries into the ordered properties of social action, this text demonstrates how ethnomethodology provides a radical respecification of the foundations of the human sciences, an achievement that has often been misunderstood.

Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology

Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology
Author: John Heritage
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0745677479

The writings of Harold Garfinkel have had a major impact on thesocial sciences and linguistics. This book offers a systematic andinnovative analysis of his theories and of the ethnomethodologicalmovement which he has inspired. It is the only full-length study focused on the writings of HaroldGarfinkel and will be essential reading for all those concernedwith understanding and evaluating one of the most radicallyoriginal social scientists of recent times.

More Studies in Ethnomethodology

More Studies in Ethnomethodology
Author: Kenneth Liberman
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1438446195

Phenomenological analyses of the orderliness of naturally occurring collaboration.

Harold Garfinkel

Harold Garfinkel
Author: Dirk vom Lehn
Publisher: Herbert von Halem Verlag
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 374451689X

Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011) zählt zu den bedeutendsten Soziologen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein Name ist Synonym für die Ethnomethodologie, die seit den 1960er-Jahren zu wichtigen analytischen und methodologischen Entwicklungen in der Soziologie geführt hat. Aus ihr sind die Konversationsanalyse und die Workplace Studies hervorgegangen. Dirk vom Lehns Einführung gibt einen systematischen Überblick über die Entwicklung von Garfinkels Schaffen. Beginnend mit Garfinkels Analysen interethnischer Beziehungen widmet sie sich dem Einfluss von Alfred Schütz und Talcott Parsons auf die Ethnomethodologie und beleuchtet schließlich die Wirkung von Garfinkels Analysen auf die Soziologie. Untersucht wird insbesondere der Einfluss der Ethnomethodologie auf Entwicklungen in der Wissenschafts- und Techniksoziologie, der Genderforschung ('doing gender'), der Organisations- und Arbeitssoziologie sowie die Technikwissenschaften.