The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel

Description

The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel brings together leading scholars and upcoming researchers in contemporary ethnomethodology to bring out the experimental character of Garfinkel's legacy in the social sciences and beyond. Therefore, the Companion takes its cue from Garfinkel's noted "breaching experiments," enabling the reflexive investigation of "trust conditions" in situ, and asks how this research interest has been productively pursued and distinctively rearticulated, both within and beyond Garfinkel's oeuvre. Whilst Garfinkel's experimental legacy is often acknowledged, no systematic introduction to its distinctive outlook, tension-riddled diversification, and heuristic interest(s) is available to date. The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel both fills and reflects upon that "gap in the literature," thereby articulating ethnomethodology's experimental outlook, if not recasting its current research directions.

Philippe Sormani is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the author of Respecifying Lab Ethnography: An Ethnomethodological Study of Experimental Physics. Dirk vom Lehn is Professor of Organisation and Practice at King's Business School, King's College London, UK. He is the author of Harold Garfinkel: The Creation and Development of Ethnomethodology.