Tag: Harold Garfinkel
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From Being to Society: How Philosophy Gave Birth to Sociology
The history of sociology is often presented as the story of a new science born in nineteenth-century Europe to study industrialization, urbanization and capitalism. While this account is not wrong, it misses a deeper intellectual transformation. Sociology did not emerge from nowhere. It emerged from a long philosophical struggle over the nature of reality itself.…
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Research perspective in the field of qualitative research
A simple glance on the cartoon does not leave room for doubt. Whatever your perspective, whatever your research´s results. In the field of qualitative research there are several approaches. These are different in their theoretical assumptions, in the way we understand the object of study. There are three mainstreams: symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, dramaturgical perspective. They…