This book-never before published-is eminent sociologist Harold Garfinkel's earliest attempt, while at Harvard in 1948, to bridge the growing gap in American sociology. This gap was generated by a Parsonian paradigm that emphasised a scientific approach to sociological description, one that increasingly distanced itself from social phenomena in the increasingly influential ways studied by phenomenologists. It was Garfinkel's idea that phenomenological description, rendered in more empirical and interactive terms, might remedy shortcomings in the reigning Parsonian view. Garfinkel soon gave up the attempt to repair scientific description, and his focus became increasingly empirical until, in 1954, he famously coined the term "Ethnomethodology." However, in this early manuscript can be seen more clearly than in some of his later work the struggle with a conceptual and positivist rendering of social relations that ultimately informed Garfinkel's position. Here we find the sources of his turn toward ethnomethodology, which would influence subsequent generations of sociologists. Essential reading for all social theory scholars and graduate students and for a wider range of social scientists in anthropology, ethnomethodology, and other fields.
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Harold Garfinklel's earliest, and previously unpublished, attempt to bridge the growing gap in American sociology.
Foreword Charles Lemert, Respecifying the Study of Social Order—Garfinkel’s Transition from Theoretical Conceptualization to Practices in Details Anne Warfield Rawls, Introduction Harold Garfinkel, Part I: Principal Theoretical Notions, Part II: Specific Problems, Notes to Seeing Sociologically, References, Index, About the Author and Editor
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781594510939
Publisert
2005-11-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
317 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
254