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Harold Garfinkel is Professor Emeritus in sociology at Harvard University. Garfinkel is one of the key developers of the phenomenological tradition in American sociology.His own development of this tradition (which he terms ethnomethodology) emphasises the extent to which social life is (or can be) chaotic, and the way in which we create social meanings in the face of this potential chaos. He emphasises the indexicality of much social behaviour and action, and the extent to which we interpret other people's actions in line with pre-existing social rules or schema.
Ethnomethodologists tend to concentrate on very small scale studies of specific social interactions, in an attempt to show how our social world is created, and how we create meaningful worlds for ourselves.
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