Harold Garfinkel

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.