Ethnomethodology's Program: Working Out Durkheim's Aphorism (Legacies of Social Thought Series) - Softcover

Garfinkel, Harold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742516423 ISBN 13: 9780742516427

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Harold Garfinkel has been on the faculty of the sociology department at UCLA since 1954. Retired in 1987, he remains active as an emeritus professor. Anne Warfield Rawls received degrees in philosophy and sociology from Boston University in 1979 and 1983. Since that time she has worked to establish the philosophical implications of contemporary interactionist sociology and ethnomethodology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742516423
• ISBN 13: 9780742516427
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Rawls Anne Warfield