Download full text
(130.5Kb)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-223121
Exports for your reference manager
Garfinkel’s Conception of Time
[journal article]
Abstract Garfinkel articulates a significant conception of time - as situated and sequential - that works in tandem with his rendering of social order in terms of situated practices. However, because his treatment of the actor, action, group and time in situated t... view more
Garfinkel articulates a significant conception of time - as situated and sequential - that works in tandem with his rendering of social order in terms of situated practices. However, because his treatment of the actor, action, group and time in situated terms differs significantly from more conventional theoretical approaches, critics have often mistakenly interpreted Garfinkel as focused on the individual, and indifferent to the significance of social structures, and their relations through time. What Garfinkel focuses on are practices, not individuals, and he argues that practices constitute the essential foundations of social structure. Given this view, the time dimension of practice is the significant time dimension for any study of communication and/or social order, which are both constituted in and through situations defined by mutual orientation toward practice.... view less
Free Keywords
ethnomethodology; Garfinkel; practice; time; trust;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2005
Page/Pages
p. 163-190
Journal
Time & Society, 14 (2005) 2-3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X05055132
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)