Garfinkel

Andrea Whittle

Chapter 1.13 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 55-59 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Harold Garfinkel (1919–2011) was an American sociologist who is best known for establishing an approach to the study of the social world known as ‘ethnomethodology’. His early experiences in the practice of keeping accounts would later influence his own ideas about how accounts – understood as a verbal or non-verbal way of rendering an action intelligible – form the building blocks for the ongoing creation (or indeed repair) of social order. Garfinkel's approach was radical at the time because it was one of the first sociological approaches to take the nitty-gritty detail of turn-by-turn social interaction seriously: something that is especially important for Strategy as Practice (SAP) because of its concern about studying what people actually do. For SAP, ethnomethodology is a potentially valuable approach because its focus is on the practices of social interaction.

Keywords: Garfinkel; Ethnomethodology; Reflexivity; Social order; Accounting practices; Conversation analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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