The Classical Roots of Ethnomethodology: Durkheim, Weber, and Garfinkel

by Richard A. Hilbert, Randall Collins (Foreword by)

Overview

Hilbert demonstrates the historical connection between the nineteenth-century theory of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber, in which sociology had its origins, and the ethnomethodological approach articulated in the 1960s by Harold Garfinkel. The author rejects the conventional view that draws radical distinctions between the two systems and at the same time provides an intellectual genealogy of ethnomethodology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781469639840
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	11/01/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	278
File size:	447 KB

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

What Hilbert does is provide historical justification for taking ethnomethodology seriously on its own terms as sociology. Thus, the book should be read, both by ethnomethodologists and by sociological theorists in general.—Charles Lemert, Wesleyan University

Hilbert challenges the Parsonian treatment of the classics to show that the concerns of Garfinkel's ethnomethodology are inscribed in the sociological writings of Durkheim and Weber. The result is a new and stimulating reappraisal of the ways in which all three thinkers address the foundations of social action and social order.—John Heritage, University of California, Los Angeles

Hilbert powerfully argues that ethnomethodology rescues Durkheim and Weber from their confinement in Parsonian theory. The Classical Roots of Ethnomethodology is a fresh, provocative, and profound interpretation of a significant segment of twentieth-century sociological theory.—Melvin Pollner, University of California, Los Angeles

A gestalt switch for mainstream sociologists and ethnomethodologists alike. . . . Hilbert treats the classics and moderns analytically. He cuts through to a core of central ideas; he shows their resonances and incompatibilities.—from the Foreword by Randall Collins

A fresh, provocative, and profound interpretation of a significant segment of twentieth-century sociological theory.—Melvin Pollner

Editorial Reviews

What Hilbert does is provide historical justification for taking ethnomethodology seriously on its own terms "as sociology".
(Charles Lemert, Wesleyan University)

A fresh, provocative, and profound interpretation of a significant segment of twentieth-century sociological theory.
(Melvin Pollner, University of California, Los Angeles)

From the Publisher