Koschmann2012

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Koschmann2012
BibType ARTICLE
Key Koschmann2012
Author(s) Timothy Koschmann
Title Early glimmers of the now familiar ethnomethodological themes in Garfinkel’s “The Perception of the Other”
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Tag(s) EMCA, Ethnomethodology, Garfinkel
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Year 2012
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Journal Human Studies
Volume 35
Number 4
Pages 479–504
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DOI 10.1007/s10746-012-9243-z
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Abstract

Garfinkel’s dissertation, “The Perception of the Other,” was completed and defended 15 years prior to the publication of Studies in Ethnomethodology. This essay seeks hints of the familiar ethnomethodological themes (indexicality, reflexivity, accountability) within his thesis. It begins by examining the contributions of earlier social theorists, particularly Talcott Parsons and Alfred Schütz, to Garfinkel’s thought. It then examines the dissertation itself seeking evidence to support the claim that Garfinkel was already moving in the direction of an ‘incommensurable, asymmetric, and alternate’ program of sociological inquiry well before the term ‘ethnomethodology’ had even been coined.

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