Course:SOCI1110/Harold Garfinkle
Harold Garfinkel
(October 29,1917 - April 21, 2011)
Biography
Harold Garfkinel was born in Newmark, New Jersey on October 29, 1917. Growing up he lived in Newmark, where his father, Abraham, had a local business selling housewares. Instead of following in his father's footsteps and taking up the family business, he decided to go to the University of Newmark to study business, and accounting. He later developed a deep interest in sociology, and moved on to study that instead. He then went to the University of North Carolina, and earned his master's degree in 1932. In the summer of 1942 Garfinkel started a field study of Bastrop, Texas, and started sociological research for the Army He was an American Sociologist, Ethomethodologist, as well as a Professor at the University of California.
References
Weber, B. (2014, September 8). Harold Garfinkel, a common-sense sociologist, dies at 93. U.S. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/us/04garfinkel.html?_r=0