Harold Garfinkel

Harold Garfinkel
Born(1917-10-29)October 29, 1917
Newark, New Jersey, US
DiedApril 21, 2011(2011-04-21) (aged 93)
Los Angeles, California, US
Known forStudies in Ethnomethodology
SpouseArlene Steinbeck
Scientific career
Fields
Doctoral advisorTalcott Parsons[1]

Harold Garfinkel (October 29, 1917 – April 21, 2011)[2] was an American sociologist and ethnomethodologist, who taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. Having developed and established ethnomethodology as a field of inquiry in sociology, he is probably best known for Studies in Ethnomethodology (1967), a collection of articles. Selections from unpublished materials were later published in two volumes: Seeing Sociologically and Ethnomethodology's Program.[3][4][5] Moreover, during his time at University of Newark, which became Rutgers University, he enrolled in Theory of Accounts, a course that covered accounting and bookkeeping procedures. Where from this class "even in setting up an accounting sheet, he was theorizing the various categories into which the numbers would be placed" which furthered his understanding of accountability.[6]

  1. ^ Rawls, Anne Warfield (2002). "Editor's Introduction". Ethnomethodology's Program: Working Out Durkheim's Aphorism. By Garfinkel, Harold. Rawls, Anne Warfield (ed.). Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-7425-7898-2.
  2. ^ Lynch, Michael (December 2011). "Harold Garfinkel (29 October 1917 – 21 April 2011): A remembrance and reminder". Social Studies of Science. 41 (6): 927–942. doi:10.1177/0306312711423434. ISSN 0306-3127. S2CID 144144921.
  3. ^ Garfinkel, H. (2002) Ethnomethodology's Program, Lanham MD, Rowman and Littlefield.
  4. ^ Garfinkel, H. (2006) Seeing Sociologically: The routine grounds of social action, Boulder CO, Paradigm Publishers.
  5. ^ Garfinkel, H. (2008) Toward a Sociological Theory of Information, Boulder CO, Paradigm Books.
  6. ^ Lynch, Michael (December 2011). "Harold Garfinkel (29 October 1917 – 21 April 2011): A remembrance and reminder". Social Studies of Science. 41 (6): 927–942. doi:10.1177/0306312711423434. ISSN 0306-3127. S2CID 144144921.