Seeing Sociologically: The Routine Grounds of Social Action

by Harold Garfinkel

Book Overview

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 phenomenologists. It was Garfinkel's idea that phenomenological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594510938
• ISBN13: 9781594510939
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"