Ethnomethodology's Program: Working Out Durkheim's Aphorism

by Harold Garfinkel

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742516423
• ISBN13: 9780742516427
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"