1st Edition

Everyday Life Reconstruction of Social Knowledge

By Jack D Douglas Copyright 1970
370 Pages
by Routledge

370 Pages
by Routledge

370 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Preface 

PART ONE: ABSOLUTIST SOCIOLOGIES AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGIES
1. Understanding Everyday Life 
Jack D. Douglas 
2. Alfred Schutz and the Sociology of Common-sense Knowledge 
John Heeren
3. Normative and Interpretive Paradigms in Sociology 
Thomas P. Wilson
4. The Everyday World as a Phenomenon 
Don H. Zimmerman and Melvin Pollner

PART TWO: CONSTRUCTING SITUATIONAL MEANINGS: LANGUAGE, MEANING AND ACTION
5. On Meaning by Rule 
D. Lawrence Wieder 
6. The Acquisition of Social Structure: Toward a Developmental Sociology of Language and Meaning 
Aaron V. Cicourel 
7. Words, Utterances, and Activities 
Roy Turner 
8. The Everyday World of the Child 
Matthew Speier 

PART THREE: RULES, SITUATED MEANINGS, AND ORGANIZED ACTIVITIES
9. The Practicalities of Rule Use 
Don H. Zimmerman 
10. Talking and Becoming: A View of Organizational Socialization 
Peter K. Manning

PART FOUR: SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM AND ETHNOMETHODOLOGY
11. Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnomethodology
Norman K. Denzin
12. Ethnomethodology and the Problem of Order: Comment on Denzin 
Don H. Zimmerman and D. Lawrence Wieder

PART FIVE: SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND TRUTH 
13. Theorizing Alan F. Blum 
14. On the Failure of Positivism Peter McHugh 
References 
Index 

Biography

Jack D Douglas