Harold Garfinkel: The Creation and Development of Ethnomethodology
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.
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Harold Garfinkel: The Creation and Development of Ethnomethodology
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.
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Harold Garfinkel: The Creation and Development of Ethnomethodology

Harold Garfinkel: The Creation and Development of Ethnomethodology

by Dirk vom Lehn
Harold Garfinkel: The Creation and Development of Ethnomethodology
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Harold Garfinkel: The Creation and Development of Ethnomethodology

Harold Garfinkel: The Creation and Development of Ethnomethodology

by Dirk vom Lehn

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611329803
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 05/01/2014
Series: Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Edition description: Translatio
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 101 Introduction; Chapter 1 Sociology as a “Love Affair”; Chapter 2 Hitch-hiking to Sociology; Chapter 3 Sociology and Sociological Attitude; Chapter 4 From Phenomenology to Ethnomethodology; Chapter 5 What Is Ethnomethodology?; Chapter 6 Ethnomethodologys Program; Chapter 7 Ethnomethodological Studies of Work; Chapter 8 Ethnomethodology and Sociology; Chapter 9 Ethnomethodology’s Influence on Recent Developments in Sociology; Chapter 10 Garfinkel’s Orphans;
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