1st Edition

Seeing Sociologically The Routine Grounds of Social Action

254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Foreword Charles Lemert, Respecifying the Study of Social Order—Garfinkel’s Transition from Theoretical Conceptualization to Practices in Details Anne Warfield Rawls, Introduction Harold Garfinkel, Part I: Principal Theoretical Notions, Part II: Specific Problems, Notes to Seeing Sociologically, References, Index, About the Author and Editor

Biography

Harold Garfinkel, Anne Rawls, Charles C. Lemert