Doubt1989

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Doubt1989
BibType ARTICLE
Key Doubt1989
Author(s) Keith Doubt
Title Garfinkel before ethnomethodology
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Tag(s) EMCA, Ethnomethodology, Garfinkel
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Year 1989
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Journal The American Sociologist
Volume 20
Number 3
Pages 252–262
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DOI 10.1007/BF02697831
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Abstract

A short story titled “‘Color Trouble’” by Harold Garfinkel was published inOpportunity in 1940,The Best Short Stories 1941, andPrimer for White Folks in 1945. Garfinkel wrote this short story before World War II while a research fellow at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill under Howard W. Odum, the founder ofSocial Forces “‘Color Trouble’” narrates poignantly the racial victimization of a young black woman traveling on a public bus through the State of Virginia. The short story provides sociologists with a different medium through which to examine the seminal interests of ethnomethodology’s founder. In a literary form, the short story depicts such ethnomethodological concepts as the breaching experiment, the “et cetera clause,” “ad hocing,” and the status degradation ceremony. Garfinkel’s “‘Color Trouble’” also suggests the way in which ethnomethodology overlaps with, as well as diverges from, Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical perspective.

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