Interest in the ethnomethodology and other phenomenological
sociologies grew very rapidly among students and professionals in
social science during the latter part of the twentieth century. The
growth of this interest was handicapped by the lack of clear,
systematic, and comprehensive treatments of their basic ideas and
research findings. This book provides the first genuinely
intelligible and reasonably systematic presentation of this
perspective and contributed to the restructuring of empirical
knowledge upon solid foundations. It remains important to those who
would understood these areas of the social sciences and their
potential to contribute to understanding of social life.
These original essays, all of which share ideas about the
scientific inadequacies of conventional sociologies and the
fundamental importance of these new approaches, were contributed by
many of the best young research workers and theorists of this
approach in 1970, when the book was originally published. They are
critical, theoretical, and empirical, and provide the first
understandable presentation of this new mode of thought, its
distinctions from old points of view, the range of problems that
concern its practitioners, and the kinds of results that can be
achieved.
The book's clarity and systematic treatment of important
research topics make it suitable for courses in sociological theory
and research, the history of social thought, and related subjects.
In addition, this volume can be used in courses specifically
dealing with ethnomethodology, in graduate seminars dealing with
these issues, and in academic work based on this orientation.
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