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Harold Garfinkel

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Harold Garfinkel · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

Founder of ethnomethodology

When

1917, Newark, New Jersey, USA — 2011, Los Angeles, California, USA

Where

United States

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Biography

Harold Garfinkel is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Founder of ethnomethodology

How & why

Harold Garfinkel was an American sociologist who founded ethnomethodology, the study of the tacit, everyday methods by which people produce and sustain social order, set out in 'Studies in Ethnomethodology' (1967). His 'breaching experiments' revealed the taken-for-granted rules of ordinary interaction. He was born into a Jewish family in New Jersey.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Sociology

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Founder of ethnomethodology

1917

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Sociology