Harold Garfinkel
Harold Garfinkel · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Founder of ethnomethodology
1917, Newark, New Jersey, USA — 2011, Los Angeles, California, USA
United States
Harold Garfinkel is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Founder of ethnomethodology
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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Founder of ethnomethodology
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