Lebenswelt origins of the sciences

Working out Durkheim's aphorism

Harold Garfinkel

pp. 9-56

in: Human Studies 30 (1), 2007.

Abstract

Over the years Husserl’s texts offered to my readings in sociology many sources of alternative subjects—transformations and elaborations of sociology’s conventional topics in the problem of social order. The subjects were original to sociology. The subjects were original to sociology’s occupation with specifying with precision, descriptive adequacy, and evidence social order in and as of Durkheim’s organizational Things in their details of ordinary society as sociology’s unique, identifying subject.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Durkheim Emile