Ethnomethodology's Program: Working Out Durkheim's Aphorism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780742516427)

Ethnomethodology's Program: Working out Durkheim's Aphorism 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.

Author: Harold Garfinkel
ISBN-10: 0742516423
ISBN-13: 9780742516427
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 06/11/2002
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.06w x 0.69d