A Legend In His Own Minefield

A Legend In His Own Minefield

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John Mendelssohn
Aug 08, 2010
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The class I enjoyed most in college was called, or at least about, ethnomethodology, which was what Dr. Harold Garfinkel called his approach to sociology. One of the key ideas, to put it very clumsily, was that the way the sociologist conducted his or her research actually told you more than the data he or she wound up compiling. Dr. Garfinkel was fasci…

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