Mike, Arne's map may be hard to find on the LCHC website because his name is miss-spelled in the link. I;ve attached a copy. Martin On 3/11/09 5:22 PM, "Mike Cole" <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote: > The trailing messages were getting really long, so I have truncated them > using a slightly different > subject line. Hope this does not screw up the conversation. > > I thought the genealogy that Martin traces below is really helpful. > Does everyone have Arne Raeithel's genealogy of CHAT which is somewhere on > the > xmca website? It would be great to add to it for the links back to LSV and > CHAT. > > mike > ----- > Martin's note: > Martin Packer to eXtended > show details 7:40 AM (7 hours ago) > Reply > > Ed, > > I think you're right to see a connection between ethnomethodology and > continental philosophy. The standard story about Garfinkel is that there > were two main influences on his work. The first was Talcott Parsons, > director of his doctoral thesis, who considered people to act on the basis > of unconscious motivations that were the result of needs internalized > through socialization. This is what Garfinkel later referred to as the > 'judgmental dope' model of action. The other influence was Alfred Schutz, a > phenomenological sociologist who emphasized the continually active character > of human consciousness of the social world. Schutz proposed that each > individual is continually interpreting and typifying the events and actions > they see around them. Social science, he insisted, should build its concepts > on these first-level common-sense, everyday constructions. Very different > from Parsons' view, but the activity that Schutz focused on was very much > individual and cognitive. Starting there it was difficult for him to explain > how people can interact together to produce a shared, intersubjective, > reality. (His students Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann tried to fill this > gap in their famous book 'The Social Construction of Reality.') What > Garfinkel has done is locate the activity of interpretation and recognition > in action itself, as something practical and social. > > Schutz was a student (and research assistant) of Edmund Husserl, and so > Garfinkel would have been likely to explore other writing on phenomenology. > I've heard he was found in his office with a copy of Being and Time, and one > can also see allusions to Merleau-Ponty in his writing. > _______________________________________________ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
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