Harold Garfinkel

(noun)

He is known for establishing and developing ethnomethodology as a field of inquiry in sociology.

Related Terms

  • ethnomethodology
  • agnosticism

Examples of Harold Garfinkel in the following topics:

  • Ethnomethodology

    • Ethnomethodology is an ethnographic approach to sociological inquiry introduced by the American sociologist Harold Garfinkel.
    • Garfinkel coined the term "ethnomethodology" in 1954 while preparing a paper that included his early research on juries.
  • The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

    • Harold Garfinkel demonstrated this situation through so-called experiments in trust, or breaching experiments, wherein students would interrupt ordinary conversations because they refused to take for granted that they knew what the other person was saying.
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