Harold Garfinkel
PROFESSOR EMERITUS
Ph. D., Harvard University
Office: A83 HAINES
Phone: 3108253328
Fax:
310-206-9838
E-mail:
garfinkel@soc.ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
264 Haines Hall - Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Subfield
Ethnomethodology
Research Interests
Classic studies of social order and ethnomethodological studies agree that the animal they are hunting is the production and accountability of the phenomena or order, reason, logic, etc. in, about, and as the great recurrences of immortal ordinary society, really, actually, evidently, distinctively, and in detail. A selected corpus of ethnomethodological studies offers evidence for locally produced, naturally accountable phenomena of order, logic, reason, meaning, method, objective knowledge, evidence, detail, structure, etc., in and as of the unavoidable and irremediable haecceity of immortal ordinary society. These results are collected by and come to a head in ethnomethodological studies of discovering work in the natural sciences. The results are contrary to the classic policies, methods, claims, and findings of professional sociology and the world-wide social science movement.
Selected Publications
"The Work of a Discovering Science construed with Materials from the Optically Discovered Pulsar," (with Eric Livingston and Michael Lynch), Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 11(2):131-158, 1981.
"Evidence for Locally Produced, Naturally Accountable Phenomena of Order*, Logic, Meaning, Method, etc., in and as of the Essentially Unavoidable and Irremediable Haeceeity of Immortal Ordinary Society: (I of IV) An Announcement of Studies," Sociological Theory '88, (6)1: 103-109, Spring 1988.
Current Works:
Book 5 Chapter 1
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