Harold Garfinkel: Studies of Work in the Sciences by Harold Garfinkel

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This volume includes an unpublished manuscript and selected portions of five seminars by Harold Garfinkel – the founder of ethnomethodology – on the topic of laboratory work in the natural sciences, providing a coherent and sustained account of his program for the study of work in the natural sciences and mathematics.

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Harold Garfinkel: Studies of Work in the Sciences by Harold Garfinkel

This volume includes an unpublished manuscript and selected portions of five seminars by Harold Garfinkel - the founder of ethnomethodology - on the topic of laboratory work in the natural sciences, providing a coherent and sustained account of his program for the study of work in the natural sciences and mathematics.

Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011) was a professor of sociology who spent most of his career at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He acquired an international reputation as the founder of ethnomethodology, the study of practical actions and reasoning in everyday life and specialized fields of action.

Michael Lynch is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, USA, and Research Professor in the School of Media and Information, University of Siegen, Germany. He has authored and edited numerous books and has written more than a hundred peer-reviewed articles on practices in science, law, and other fields of action. From 2002 to 2012, he was editor of Social Studies of Science, a leading journal in the field of Science and Technology Studies.

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ISBN 13 9781032000756
ISBN 10 1032000759
Title Harold Garfinkel: Studies of Work in the Sciences
Author Harold Garfinkel
Series Directions In Ethnomethodology And Conversation Analysis
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Routledge
Year published 2022-04-26
Number of pages 218
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