Harold Garfinkel

Author(s)

• Lynch, Michael
• Sharrock, W. W. (Wes W.)

Bibliographic Information

Harold Garfinkel

edited by Michael Lynch & Wes Sharrock

（Sage masters of modern social thought）

Sage, 2003

• : set
• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3
• v. 4

Note

Includes bibliographies

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Born in 1917, Harold Garfinkel is one of a handful of sociologists to have founded a major sociological research programme, and he is perhaps the only one to have done so in the 20th century. Unlike many major theorists, whose individual contributions have become part of the sociological canon, Garfinkel's contribution is identified with a distinctive empirical approach that continues to be taken up in sociology and a number of other social science fields. He coined the term ethnomethodology - to describe a unique orientation to the production of social order. This term became established to describe the approach he founded. His book Studies in Ethnomethodology (1967) was a landmark publication that articulated the ethnomethodological programme and illustrated it with a number of studies. Much of Garfinkel's contribution is embodied in a research programme, consisting of studies written by his students who took up his research agenda. The four volumes include an introduction by Lynch and Sharrock that discusses Garfinkel's intellectual biography and reviews his contribution. The 80 selections included in the set of volumes consist of basic position statements, critical discussions, methodological writings, discussions of the problem of social reality, comparisons between ethnomethodology and other perspectives, and studies exemplifying Garfinkel's influence at different phases of his long and distinguished career. The result is an unparalleled resource in understanding Garfinkel's achievement and the extraordinary wealth of his sociological ideas and methods. The four volumes are organized in seven sections: 1. Position Statements This section provides: a guide to the meaning of ethnomethodology; the ethnomethodological programme; the relationship between Garfinkel and classical sociology; an assessment of the significance of the ethnomethodological movement; and evaluations of the contribution of ethnomethodology. 2. Criticisms and Reactions Garfinkel's work provides a number of challenges and opportunities for sociologists. Some have found it very liberating, others have questioned its durable contribution. Included here are criticisms and reactions from some of the leading figures in the discipline, notably Anthony Giddens, Ernest Gellner, Alvin Gouldner, John Goldthorpe, Louis Coser and J rgen Habermas. 3. Ethnomethodology and Other Perspectives Ethnomethdology both drew on other established perspectives and revitalized them. The editors single out four perspectives here for special consideration: phenomenology; symbolic interactionism; conversation analysis; and constructionism. 4. Methods as Topics and Resources This section explores: ordinary and scientific measurement as ethnomethodological phenomena; evidence and inference in ethnomethodology; and quantitative practice and ethnomethodology. 5. From the Problem of Reality to the Production of Reality This section addresses: questions of objectivity and realism; the anatomy of factual accounts; the anatomy of reality; and reflexivity of actors and accounts. 6. Studies of Organizations and Institutions One of the distinctive features of ethnomethodology is the productiveness of the approach as an instrument of research. This section conveys the wealth of ethnomethodological studies by focusing on investigations of practices in legal, medical, educational, and other organizations. 7. Studies of Work in the Professions and Sciences The final group of studies exemplifies the influence of Garfinkel's programme in 'studies of work in the sciences and professions'. These studies focus on practices of scientific research, mathematical proving, and technological design. The studies develop upon Garfinkel's insights about the relationship between formal accounts and the 'lived-work' of producing accountable actions.

Table of Contents

VOLUME I PART ONE: POSITION STATEMENTS Definition of Ethnomethodology - Oxford English Dictionary Ethnomethodology - Michael Lynch Harold Garfinkel - Anne Rawls Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology - John Heritage A Conversation with Harvey Sacks - Edward Rose The Ethnomethodological Movement - Robert Dingwall Studies in Ethnomethodology: Twenty Years Later - Don H. Zimmerman The Diversity of Ethnomethodology - Douglas W. Maynard & Steven E. Clayman On Harol Garfinkel's Ethnomethodology - Paul Filmer Garfinkel's Recovery of Themes in Classical Sociology - Richard A. Hilbert Ethnomethodology and the Contemporary Condition of Inquiry - Jeff Coulter The Everyday World as a Phenomenon - Don H. Zimmerman & Melvin Pollner Reflexivity of Actors Versus Reflexivity of Accounts - Marek Czyzewski PART TWO: CRITICISMS AND REACTIONS Ethnomethodology - Alvin W. Gouldner Sociology as a Happening Ethnomethodology - Anthony Giddens The Problem of Understanding Meaning in the Social Sciences - Jurgen Habermas Review of Garfinkel, Studies in Ethnomethodology - James S. Coleman A Revolution in Sociology? - John H. Goldthorpe Critical Note: A Revolution in Sociology - Doug Benson Two Methods in Search of a Substance - Lewis A. Coser A Reply to Professor Coser - Don H. Zimmerman De-Secting Ethnomethodology - Hugh Mehan & Houston Wood Reply to My Critics - Lewis A. Coser VOLUME II PART TWO: CRITICISMS AND REACTIONS (continued) Ethnomethodology Since Garfinkel - Paul Attewell Understanding Ethnomethodology - Mark Peyrot A Remedy for Some Common Misconceptions Left of Ethnomethodology - Melvin Pollner The Rise and Decline of Radical Reflexivity PART THREE: ETHNOMETHODOLOGY AND OTHER PERSPECTIVES Section 1: Phenomenology On Phenomenological Society - James L. Heap and Phillip A. Roth From Phenomenology to Ethnomethodology - John O'Neill Some Radical "Misreadings" Ethnomethodology as a Phenomenological Approach in the Social Sciences - George Psathas When is Phenomenology Sociological? - D. Lawrence Wieder The Relationship Between Ethnomethodology and Phenomenology - R.J. Anderson, J.A. Hughes & W.A. Sharrock Section 2: Symbolic Interactionism Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnomethodology - Norman K. Denzin A Proposed Synthesis Ethnomethodology and the Problem of Order - Don H. Zimmerman & D. Lawrence Wieder Comment on Denzin Remarks on the Conceptualization of Social Structure - Jeff Coulter Section 3: Conversation Analysis Sociological Description - Harvey Sacks Structure-in-Action - Don H. Zimmerman & Deirdre Boden An Introduction On Conversation - Don H. Zimmerman The Conversation Analytic Perspective From Resource to Topic - D. Lawrence Wieder Some Aims of Conversation Analysis Section 4: Ethnomethodology and Constructionism Technical Work and Critical Enquiry - Michael E. Lynch Investigations in a Scientific Laboratory A Disagreement over Agreement and Consensus in Constructionist Sociology - Graham Button & Wes Sharrock Sociological and Common-Sense Models of the Labelling Process - Melvin Pollner Ontological Gerrymandering - Steve Woolgar & Dorothy Pawluch The Anatomy of Social Problems Explanations PART FOUR: METHODS AS TOPICS AND RESOURCES Interviews, Surveys and the Problem of Ecological Validity - Aaron V. Cicourel Interactional Troubles in Face-to-Face Survey Interviews - Lucy Suchman & Brigitte Jordan VOLUME III PART FOUR: METHODS AS TOPICS AND RESOURCES (continued) Ethnomethodology and Measurement - Lindsey Churchill Method - Michael Lynch Measurement - Ordinary and Scientific Measurement as Ethnomethodological Phenomena Method - Douglas Benson & John A. Hughes Evidence and Inference - Evidence and Inference for Ethnomethodology On "Understanding" in the Analysis of Natural Conversation - Michael Moerman & Harvey Sacks PART FIVE: FROM THE PROBLEM OF REALITY TO THE PRODUCTION OF REALITY Objectivity and Realism in Sociology - Egon Bittner Mundane Reasoning - Melvin Pollner Beyond the "Limits" of Mundane Reason - David Bogen 'K is Mentally Ill' - 003 Dorothy E. Smith The Anatomy of a Factual Account Moral Order and the Montreal Massacre - Peter Eglin & Stephen Hester A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis The Praxiology of Perception - Jeff Coulter & E.D. Parsons Visual Orientations and Practical Action The Structure of Directions - George Psathas & Martin Kozloff PART SIX: ETHNOMETHODOLOGICAL STUDIES OF ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS The Concept of Organization - Egon Bittner The Police on Skid-Row - Egon Bittner A Study of Peace Keeping Accusations - Paul Drew The Occasioned Use of Members' Knowledge of 'Religious Geography' in Describing Events Lawyers' Work in the Menendez Brothers' Murder Trial - Stacy Burns On Understanding Without Words - David A. Goode Communication Between a Deaf-Blind Child and her Parents The Collective Character of Disputes in Aboriginal Communities - Kenneth Liberman The Use of Precedent in Natural Conversation - Michael Moerman A Study in Practical Legal Reasoning VOLUME IV PART SIX: ETHNOMETHODOLOGICAL STUDIES OF ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS (continued) Some Researchable Recurrences in Disciplinary-Specific Inquiry - Ken Morrison Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis, and the Study of Courtroom Interaction - Anita Pomerantz & J. Maxwell Atkinson Can He Think? - Albert B. Robillard Notes on Police Assessment of Moral Character - Harvey Sacks Data - Howard Schwartz Who Needs It? Describing Normal Environments - Examples and Methods Normal Crimes - david Sudnow Sociological Features of the Penal Code in a Public Defender Office Some Formal Properties of Therapy Talk - Roy Turner Doing the Organization's Work - D.R. Watson An Examination of Aspects of the Operation of a Crisis Intervention Center Telling the Code - D. Lawrence Wieder PART SEVEN: STUDIES OF WORK IN THE PROFESSIONS AND SCIENCES Discipline and the Material Form of Images - Michael Lynch An Analysis of Scientific Visibility Cultures of Proving - Eric Livingstone Lebenswelt Structures of Galilean Physics: The Case of Galileo's Pendulum - Dusan I. Bjelic Classroom "Floors" - Douglas Macbeth Material Organizations as a Course of Affairs Introduction to Hermeneutics of the Occult - Trent Eglin Alchemy Representing Practice in Cognitive Science - Lucy A. Suchman Project Work - Graham Button & Wes Sharrock The Organisation of Collaborative Design and Development in Software Engineering Seeing in Depth - Charles Goodwin

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA62099703
• ISBN:
  • 0761974598
• LCCN: 2002115922
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 4 v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 361.253
  • DC21 : 301
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Garfinkel, Harold, 1946-
  • LCSH : Sociology
  • LCSH : Ethnomethodology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA49297247