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, Inc., 2002

Synopsis

Ethnomethodology's Program: Working out Durkheim's Aphorism emphasizes Garfinkel's insistence that his position focuses on fundamental sociological issuesand 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.

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Review:

Ethnomethodology's Program is written in...[a] particular, expressive and careful manner.--Graham Button, Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France "Computer Supported Cooperative Work "

Ethnomethdology's Program is a mine of rich insight into ethnomethodology's history; providing details of Garfinkel's intellectual biography, models of ethnomethodological study to which to refer, and alternative ways of thinking about the study of social order and the work of the social sciences.--Linguistics & Education

Anne Rawls's introductory essay is without doubt the most systematic, clear, valid, and resonate secondary source on what is called ethnomethodology. The Garfinkel papers live up to the promise of a well-reasoned extention of Durkheim's aphorism that points sociology to the natural order of concrete facts in the world. A close reading of this book is bound to be refreshing and stimulating. It is an essential task if one is to understand one viable variant on mechanistic, technically driven empiricism.--Contemporary Sociology

This ambitious volume will not end the controversial discussions of ethnomethodology, but will certainly enrich them by providing enormous intellectual resources. Rawl's editing provides an in-depth, informed, and intelligible access to Garfinkel's thought, and the book will bring further recognition of the originality and significance of Garfinkel's many contributions--American Journal of Sociology

In sum, Ethnomethodology 's Program: Working out Durkheim 's Aphorism is a challenging and dense extension of the initial work of Garfinkel. . . Sociologists already familiar with ethnomethodology will be delighted by these exciting presentations and sometimes unexpected, such as the phenomenon of the order over the telephone interviews, methods.--Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques

Synopsis:

Since the 1967 publication of "Studies in Ethnomethodology", Harold Garfinkel has indelibly influenced the social sciences and humanities worldwide. This book, the sequel to "Studies", comprises Garfinkel's work over three decades to further elaborate the study of ethnomethodology. "Working out Durkheims' 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 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0742516423
• ISBN 13: 9780742516427
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Rawls Anne