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This volume includes an unpublished manuscript and selected
portions of five seminars by Harold Garfinkel - the founder of
ethnomethodology - on the topic of practices in the natural
sciences and mathematics. The volume provides a coherent and
sustained account of his program for the study of ordinary and
specialized social actions. Presenting broader theoretical and
methodological initiatives, as well as discussions and summaries of
exemplary studies of social phenomena within and beyond the
sciences, this work dates to the period in the 1980s during which
the field of Science and Technology Studies was taking shape, with
ethnomethodological studies of scientific practice forming a major
part of its development at the time. Aside from their historical
importance, the manuscript and seminars present a distinctive
perspective on the natural and social sciences that remains highly
original and pertinent to research on science, social science, and
everyday life today. Offering critical insights and proposals
relating to developments in Ethnomethodology and Conversation
Analysis, this volume will appeal to scholars of Sociology and
Science and Technology Studies with interests in the work of
Garfinkel. The Open Access version of this book, available at
www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
This volume includes an unpublished manuscript and selected
portions of five seminars by Harold Garfinkel - the founder of
ethnomethodology - on the topic of practices in the natural
sciences and mathematics. The volume provides a coherent and
sustained account of his program for the study of ordinary and
specialized social actions. Presenting broader theoretical and
methodological initiatives, as well as discussions and summaries of
exemplary studies of social phenomena within and beyond the
sciences, this work dates to the period in the 1980s during which
the field of Science and Technology Studies was taking shape, with
ethnomethodological studies of scientific practice forming a major
part of its development at the time. Aside from their historical
importance, the manuscript and seminars present a distinctive
perspective on the natural and social sciences that remains highly
original and pertinent to research on science, social science, and
everyday life today. Offering critical insights and proposals
relating to developments in Ethnomethodology and Conversation
Analysis, this volume will appeal to scholars of Sociology and
Science and Technology Studies with interests in the work of
Garfinkel. The Open Access version of this book, available at
www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
First published in 1986, this collection of essays brings together
ethnomethodological studies from key academics of the discipline,
including the renowned scholar Harold Garfinkel who established and
developed the field. In addition to four case studies, the volume
begins and ends with two essays which discuss some of the theory
employed by ethnomethodologists. The essays in this collection look
at a range of areas, from truck wheel accidents and their
regulation, to martial arts and alchemy and provide concise and
insightful examples of the ways in which ethnomethodology can be
applied to a number of settings and subjects. This work will be of
interest to those studying ethnomethodology and sociology.
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.
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.
Tibetan Buddhist scholar-monks have long engaged in face-to-face
public philosophical debates. This original study challenges
Orientalist text-based scholarship, which has overlooked these
lived practices of Tibetan dialectics. Kenneth Liberman brings
these dynamic disputations to life for the modern reader through a
richly detailed, turn-by-turn analysis of the monks' formal
philosophical reasoning. He argues that Tibetan Buddhists
deliberately organize their debates into formal structures that
both empower and constrain thinking, skillfully using logic as an
interactional tool to organize their reflections. During his three
years in residence at Tibetan monastic universities, Liberman
observed and videotaped the monks' debates. He then transcribed,
translated, and analyzed them using multimedia software and
ethnomethodological techniques, which enabled him to scrutinize the
local methods that Tibetan debaters use to keep their philosophical
inquiries alive. His study shows the monks rely on such indigenous
dialectical methods as extending an opponent's position to its
absurd consequences, "pulling the rug out" from under an opponent,
and other lively strategies. This careful investigation of the
formal philosophical work of Tibetan scholars is a pathbreaking
analysis of an important classical tradition.
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.
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.
First published in 1986, this collection of essays brings together
ethnomethodological studies from key academics of the discipline,
including the renowned scholar Harold Garfinkel who established and
developed the field. In addition to four case studies, the volume
begins and ends with two essays which discuss some of the theory
employed by ethnomethodologists. The essays in this collection look
at a range of areas, from truck wheel accidents and their
regulation, to martial arts and alchemy and provide concise and
insightful examples of the ways in which ethnomethodology can be
applied to a number of settings and subjects. This work will be of
interest to those studying ethnomethodology and sociology.
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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