Harold Garfinkel: Parsons' Primer

Abstract

Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011) was one of the most important American sociologists and is the founder of Ethnomethodology. The book presents his previously unpublished manuscript Parsons’ Primer (1962/63) in which Garfinkel explains Parsons’ position on systems of social interaction and how it relates to his own position which is an important missing piece of Garfinkel’s argument.