Ethnomethodology's program : working out Durkeim's aphorism / Harold Garfinkel ; edited and introduced by Anne Warfield Rawls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garfinkel, Harold, author.

Contributor:

Rawls, Anne Warfield, 1950- editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Legacies of social thought.

Legacies of Social Thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnomethodology.

Phenomenological sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2002.

Other Title:

Studies in ethnomethodology.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2002]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ethnomethodology's Program: Working out Durkheim's Aphorism 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

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; The Pleasure of Garfinkel's Indexical Ways, by Charles Lemert; Editor's Introduction; Author's Introduction; Author's Acknowledgments as an Autobiographical Account; Part I: What Is Ethnomethodology?; 1 The Central Claims of Ethnomethodology; 2 EM Studies and Their Formal Analytic Alternates; 3 Rendering Theorems; 4 Tutorial Problems; 5 Ethnomethodological Policies and Methods; Part II: Instructed Action; 6 Instructions and Instructed Actions; 7 A Study of the Work of Teaching Undergraduate Chemistry in Lecture Format

8 Autochthonous Order Properties of Formatted Queues9 An Ethnomethodological Study of the Work of Galileo's Inclined Plane Demonstration of the Real Motion of Free Falling Bodies; Index; About the Author and Editor

Notes:

"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."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed June 22, 2020).

ISBN:

979-82-16-40518-4

9798765168172

0-7425-7898-4

1-299-79545-5

OCLC:

855970174