Ethnomethodology's Program
Subtitle: Working Out Durkheim's Aphorism
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: July 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780742516427
Subjects: Social theory; Sociology - General; Phenomenological sociology; Social Science; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Methodology; Social Science / Methodology; Ethnomethodology
Description: 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.
Table of contents: value: Central Claims to Ethnomethodology; value: EM Studies and Their Formal Analytic Alternates; value: Rendering Theorems; value: Tutorial Problems; value: Ethnomethodological Policies and Methods; value: Instructions and Instructed Actions; value: A Study of the Work of Teaching Undergraduate Chemistry in Lecture Format; value: Autochthonous Order Properties of Formatted Queues; value: An Ethnomethodological Study of the Work of Galileo's Inclined Plane Demonstration of the Real Motion of Free Falling Bodies