EMCA Seminar Fall-Winter 2014:
Knowledge, Consciousness, and Action
Professor Shiro Kashimura
Graduate School of Law
Kobe University
Purpose
The Fall-Winter term of 2014 EMCA Seminar will examine the basic building blocks of the idea of Ethnomethodology: Knowledge, Consciousness, and Action. Its first part considering the materials by Helmer & Rescher, and by Mannheim introduces the concepts of "accounting" and "documentary method of interpretation" among the Garfinkel's idea of ethnomethodology. The question of the connectedness of accounting and knowledge will be pursued by reading 2 addtitonal materials focusing on the working concept of "information," Garfinkel's 1952 manuscript (published in 2006) and J.S.Bruner's paper. The second part of the seminar tries to clarify the question of how knowledge reflectively connect themselves within the system of practical-action. The first 2 materials by Hinkle and by Hawthorn inform us of the background of Americal sociology at the time. The materials by Znaniecki, Schütz, Gurwitsch, and Burke are the group of manifestations of European-American thought as to the concept of practical actions that were important not only for Garfinkel but also for the development of American sociology, much of which is forgotten by the current sociaological thoughts. We conclude with a "conceptual" analysis of Parsons' theory by a Dutch sociologist and his former student, Hans Adriaansens.
Materials for the Seminar:
On the Epistemology of the Inexact Sciences (1958) by Olaf Helmer and Nicholas Rescher, Rand Corporation. (The booklet is available online.)
"On the Interpretation of Weltanschauung" (1952)[=1921-22] by Karl Mannheim Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge, Tr. and ed. by Paul Kecskemeti (New York:Oxford U.P.): 33-83. (The chapter is available online.)
Toward a Sociological Theory of Information (1952) by Harold Garfinkel: pp. 110-159.
"Going Beyond the Information Given"(1957) by Jerome S. Bruner in his Beyond the Information Given, selected & edited by Jeremy M. Anglin, London, George Allen & Unwin: pp. 218-238.
"Possible European Influence on American Theory," (1994) a chapter by Roscoe C. Hinkle, in his Developments in American Sociological Theory, 1915-1950, SUNY Press: pp. 273-300.
"History Ignored" & "History Unresolved," chapters by G. Hawthorn (1987) , in his Enlightment and Despair: A History of Social Theory,Cambridge University Press: pp. 191-253.
"Cooperative Guidance" & "Primary Opposition," (1936) chapters by Florian Znaniecki , in his Social Actions, pp. 162-179, 312-344.
The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge (1940) by Florian Znaniecki .
"Reflections on the Problem of Relevance," (1945) by Alfred Schuetz in his Collected Papers V. Phenomenology and the Social Sciences, edited by Lester Embree, Springer: pp. 93-199
"Some Principles of Gestalt Psychology," (1953=1962) by A. Gurwitsch , in his The Collected Works of Aron Gurwitsch (1901-1973) Volume III, edited by Richard Zaner, Springer: pp. 86-148.
"Scope and Reduction," by Kenneth Burke (1945), A Grammar of Motives: pp. 58-125 (The book is available online reading.)
"The New Voluntaristic Action Theory," & "Testing The Theory Against Its Premises," (1980) chapters by H.P.M. Adriaansens in his Talcott Parsons and the Conceptual Dilemma, Routledge & Kegan Paul: pp. 116-175.
Additional Information:
The early publications and biographical events in Garfinkel's scholarly life are listed in my site: Formative Steps of Ethnomethodology.
Time & Place:
The class will meet in Room 102 of Law Building at 13:30-15:50 (the ending time depending on the discussion) on every Tuesday starting on October 11, 2014.
Whereas this is a credited course for the graduate students of legal sociology of Kobe University, anyone who is interested is welcome to attend (without credits).
Knowledge, Consciousness, and Action
Professor Shiro Kashimura
Graduate School of Law
Kobe University
Purpose
The Fall-Winter term of 2014 EMCA Seminar will examine the basic building blocks of the idea of Ethnomethodology: Knowledge, Consciousness, and Action. Its first part considering the materials by Helmer & Rescher, and by Mannheim introduces the concepts of "accounting" and "documentary method of interpretation" among the Garfinkel's idea of ethnomethodology. The question of the connectedness of accounting and knowledge will be pursued by reading 2 addtitonal materials focusing on the working concept of "information," Garfinkel's 1952 manuscript (published in 2006) and J.S.Bruner's paper. The second part of the seminar tries to clarify the question of how knowledge reflectively connect themselves within the system of practical-action. The first 2 materials by Hinkle and by Hawthorn inform us of the background of Americal sociology at the time. The materials by Znaniecki, Schütz, Gurwitsch, and Burke are the group of manifestations of European-American thought as to the concept of practical actions that were important not only for Garfinkel but also for the development of American sociology, much of which is forgotten by the current sociaological thoughts. We conclude with a "conceptual" analysis of Parsons' theory by a Dutch sociologist and his former student, Hans Adriaansens.
Materials for the Seminar:
On the Epistemology of the Inexact Sciences (1958) by Olaf Helmer and Nicholas Rescher, Rand Corporation. (The booklet is available online.)
"On the Interpretation of Weltanschauung" (1952)[=1921-22] by Karl Mannheim Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge, Tr. and ed. by Paul Kecskemeti (New York:Oxford U.P.): 33-83. (The chapter is available online.)
Toward a Sociological Theory of Information (1952) by Harold Garfinkel: pp. 110-159.
"Going Beyond the Information Given"(1957) by Jerome S. Bruner in his Beyond the Information Given, selected & edited by Jeremy M. Anglin, London, George Allen & Unwin: pp. 218-238.
"Possible European Influence on American Theory," (1994) a chapter by Roscoe C. Hinkle, in his Developments in American Sociological Theory, 1915-1950, SUNY Press: pp. 273-300.
"History Ignored" & "History Unresolved," chapters by G. Hawthorn (1987) , in his Enlightment and Despair: A History of Social Theory,Cambridge University Press: pp. 191-253.
"Cooperative Guidance" & "Primary Opposition," (1936) chapters by Florian Znaniecki , in his Social Actions, pp. 162-179, 312-344.
The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge (1940) by Florian Znaniecki .
"Reflections on the Problem of Relevance," (1945) by Alfred Schuetz in his Collected Papers V. Phenomenology and the Social Sciences, edited by Lester Embree, Springer: pp. 93-199
"Some Principles of Gestalt Psychology," (1953=1962) by A. Gurwitsch , in his The Collected Works of Aron Gurwitsch (1901-1973) Volume III, edited by Richard Zaner, Springer: pp. 86-148.
"Scope and Reduction," by Kenneth Burke (1945), A Grammar of Motives: pp. 58-125 (The book is available online reading.)
"The New Voluntaristic Action Theory," & "Testing The Theory Against Its Premises," (1980) chapters by H.P.M. Adriaansens in his Talcott Parsons and the Conceptual Dilemma, Routledge & Kegan Paul: pp. 116-175.
Additional Information:
The early publications and biographical events in Garfinkel's scholarly life are listed in my site: Formative Steps of Ethnomethodology.
Time & Place:
The class will meet in Room 102 of Law Building at 13:30-15:50 (the ending time depending on the discussion) on every Tuesday starting on October 11, 2014.
Whereas this is a credited course for the graduate students of legal sociology of Kobe University, anyone who is interested is welcome to attend (without credits).
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