SOCIOL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Verstehen, The Structure Of Social Action, Cleaning Windows
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Garfinkel, harold: ethnomethodology: study of methods used in everyday life to understand the social world developed into conversation analysis. Garfinkel was influenced by and a student of talcott parsons structural functionalism: everything has a purpose in continuing survival. Parsons was primary interpreter of weber in the us. Strong state is necessary to maintain social order (e. g. lord of the flies) 1951: parsons writes the structure of social action arguing against. We act in our own self-interest which creates a collective good/a moral society, which is compatible with democracy self-regulation for parson"s works because individuals internalize norms and values and act in accordance with them. This solution to the problem of social order and attempt to make sociology into a science are at conflict. Value and norm is not enough to motivate robot to do something. Robot needs idea of the method for cleaning missing verstehen orientation, a subjective orientation.
