Harold Garfinkel: Studies of Work in the Sciences

Front matter

HAROLD GARFINKEL ._ | EDITED WITH AN N ION BY MICHAEL LYNCH E I d i eee 3 ; E 3

HAROLD — GARFINKEL: STUDIES OF WORK IN THE SCIENCES

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Contents

Editors acknowledgements Michael Lynch

Editors introduction Michael Lynch

PART |

PART II Discovering work of the sciences: five seminars on

the work of the discovering sciences, Department of Sociology, UCLA (May-July 1980) 99 Harold Garfinkel

Editor’s introduction to Part II 101 Michael Lynch Seminar 1: Discovering work of the sciences (May 22, 1980) 104

Seminar 2: Discovering work of the sciences (May 27, 1980) 125 Harold Garfinkel

Seminar 3: Discovering work of the sciences (June 3, 1980) 139 Harold Garfinkel

Seminar 4: Discovering work of the sciences (June 19, 1980) 154 Harold Garfinkel

Seminar 5: Discovering work of the sciences (July 1, 1980) 171 Harold Garfinkel

References to Part II 199

EDITOR'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

(The authors acknowledgements are presented on pages 81-82 in Part I.)

I would like to thank Arlene Garfinkel, who encouraged me to edit and prepare for publication the previously unpublished manuscript in Part I of this book. When I met with Arlene during the year following Harold Garfinkel’s death, she assured me that Harold had hoped that I would edit the manuscript. Arlene worked in the field of lipid chemistry and furnished Harold with stories and insights that informed his discussions of laboratory practice in this book. I also would like to thank Douglas Macbeth for permitting the republication of Appendix 2 (“Some Notes on the Play of Basketball in Its Circumstantial Detail”), and for updating the paper for inclusion in this book. I’m also very grateful to Anne Rawls, Harold Garfinkel’s literary executor, for giving me access to archival materials currently housed at the Garfinkel archive in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and for permitting the publication and republication of the selection of those materials in this book. She and Jason Turowetz, Clemens Eisenmann, and Jakub Mlynář also provided invaluable help by locating the transcripts and other materials used in Parts I and II, and by sending scanned and digitized copies of transcripts and recordings to me. Tristan Thielmann and the staff at the School of Media and Information, University of Siegen, Germany, made it possible for digital recordings to be made of the seminars included in Part II, which were very helpful for reviewing the transcripts.

Michael Lynch