Garfinkel obituary

I posted a short note about the death of Harold Garfinkel a couple of weeks or so ago, which I picked up from another blog – that post seems to have been getting lots of hits from people searching for further information/confirmation – so here is a link to the NY Times obit.

Harold Garfinkel

News from The Global Sociology Blog of the death of Harold Garfinkel, inventor, if that’s the right word, of ethnomethodology. Garfinkel’s story about Agnes, the 120% woman, remains one of the most vividly mind-changing pieces of social theory I can ever remember reading.