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Harold Garfinkel  1917-  United States

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Ethnomethodology


Questions of 

ethnomethodology "The study of ways in which people make sense of what others do; in particular, the way people use language"


Reading

1946 "Color trouble."  in Primer for white folks.   Edited by B. Moon, 269-286.   Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran
1956 "Conditions of successful degradation ceremonies."  American Journal of Sociology 61: 420-424.
1956 "Some sociological concepts and methods for psychiatrists."  Psychiatric Research Reports 6: 181-198.
1963 "A conception of, and experiments with, 'trust' as a condition of stable concerted actions."  in Motivation and social interaction.   Edited by O.J. Harvey, 187-238.   New York: The Ronald Press
1967 Studies in ethnomethodology .  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall
1967 "Practical sociological reasoning: Some features in the work of the Los Angeles suicide prevention center."  in Essays in self-destruction.   Edited by E. Shneidman, 171-186.   New York: Science House
1968 "Discussion: The origin of the term 'ethnomethodology'."  in Proceedings of the Purdue Symposium on Ethnomethodology.   Edited by R. Hill and K. Grittenden, 15-18.   Institute Monograph Series #1
1972 "A Comparison of Decisions Made on Four 'Pre-Theoretical' Problems byTalcott Parsons and Alfred Sc hultz"  in .   Edited by , .   ms..  [first published in 1960]
1972 "Studies in the routine grounds of everyday activities."  in Studies in social interaction.   Edited by D. Sudnow, 1-30.   New York: The Free Press.  [first published in 1964]
1972 "Conditions of Successful Degradation Ceremonies."  in Symbolic Interactionism.   Edited by J. Manis and B. Meltzer, 201-208.   New York: Allyn and Bacon
1976 "An introduction, for novices, to the work of studying naturally organized ordinary activities."  in .   Edited by , .   ms.
1981 "The Work of a Discovering Science Construed with Materials from the Optically Discovered Pulsar."  Philosophy and the Sociology of Science 11: 131-158.
1970 "On formal structures of practical actions."  in Theoretical sociology: Perspectives and developments.   Edited by J. McKinney and E. Tiryakian, 337-366.   New York: Meredith
2002 Ethnomethodology's program: Working out Durkheim's aphorism .  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield

 


Writing available on the net

Chapter TWO: Studies of the routine grounds of everyday activities by Harold Garfinkel From STUDIES IN ETHNOMETHODOLOGY, New Jersey, 1967

 


Commentaries

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SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE


Quotations

The work of achieving and making secure their rights to live in the elected sex status while providing for the possibility of detection and ruin carried out within the socially structured conditions in which this work occurred I shall call "passing". (Garfinkel's italics. p. 118)