Seeing Sociologically

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

ISBN 1594510938   Pages 256 ISBN13 9781594510939 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Paradigm   Weight (grammes) 299 Imprint Paradigm   Published in E. Boulder Format Paperback   Series title Great Barrington Books Publication date 01 Mar 2005   Height (mm) 216 Writer of foreword Charles C. Lemert   Width (mm) 140 Library of Congress 2005012522   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY 305.8001   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		Foreword by Charles Lemert
		Respecifying the study of social order - Garfinkel's transition from theoretical conceptualization to practices in details by Anne Warfield Rawls		1
		Introduction by Harold Garfinkel		99
Pt. I		Principal theoretical notions		101
		Action		101
		Actor		107
		Role and the concept of the finite province of meaning		117
		Noesis-Noema structures		132
		Social identity		145
		Identity constancy and identity transformation		151
		Communication		179
		Style, tactics, and strategies of communication		182
		Group		189
Pt. II		Specific problems		205
		Statement of thesis problems		205

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