Harold GarfinkelThinkers

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The Counseling experiment is a social experiment in which an academic advisor would offer random, often contradictory responses to a student's questions. The students struggled to make sense out of the senseless data rather than seeing it as nonsense. The finding was that people construct a social reality to make sense of an often-senseless interaction.

The Documentary method is a psychological process consisting of our daily efforts to construct a world we are at home in, a world that can be taken-for-granted.

The Documentary method is a psychological process whereby individuals bring order to, or make sense of their social world by selecting facts, submitting them to the patterns they seem to hold, and then using that as a framework for interpreting new facts.

Indexicality is the way we refer to the context of a remark or action to make sense of it.

Social action is a methodology that involves constantly giving oneself accounts of what is going on, such that accounts and reality are mutually constitutive of one another.

Sociology is concerned with making descriptions of social settings which compete with the actual descriptions offered by the individuals who are party to those settings.

Sociology is a discipline that it takes the facticity of the social order for granted. For example, it's study proceed upon the acceptance of the category of 'race' or 'family' rather than investigating how these elements of the social order are produced and shared.

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