Seeing Sociologically - The Routine Grounds of Social Action (Paperback)

This book - never before published - is eminent sociologist Harold Garfinkel's earliest attempt, while at Harvard in 1948, to bridge the growing gap in U.S. sociology. This gap was generated by a Parsonsian paradigm that emphasized a scientific approach to sociological description, one that increasingly distanced itself from social phenomena in the 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 Parsonsian 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.This book is essential reading for all social theory scholars and graduate students and for a wider range of social scientists in anthropology, ethnomethodology, and other fields.

General

Imprint:	Paradigm Publications
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	Harold Garfinkel • Anne Rawls • Charles C. Lemert
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-59451-093-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General
LSN:	1-59451-093-8
Barcode:	9781594510939

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