In 1952 at Princeton University, Harold Garfinkel developed a
sociological theory of information. Other prominent theories then
being worked out at Princeton, including game theory, neglected the
social elements of "information," modeling a rational individual
whose success depends on completeness of both reason and
information. In real life these conditions are not possible and
these approaches therefore have always had limited and problematic
practical application. Garfinkel's sociological theory treats
information as a thoroughly organized social phenomenon in a way
that addresses these shortcomings comprehensively. Although famous
as a sociologist of everyday life, Garfinkel focuses in this new
book-never before published-on the concerns of large-scale
organization and decisionmaking. In the fifty years since Garfinkel
wrote this treatise, there has been no systematic treatment of the
problems and issues he raises. Nor has anyone proposed a theory of
information like the one he proposed. Many of the same problems
that troubled theorists of information and predictable order in
1952 are still problematic today.
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