Toward a sociological theory of information / Harold Garfinkel ; edited and introduced by Anne Warfield Rawls.

By:

Garfinkel, Harold [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2016Edition: Special Indian editionDescription: vi, 328 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781138678903 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

306.4201 GAR 23 013177

Online resources:

Table of contents only

Contents:

Machine derived contents note: Table Of Contents I Various Conceptions of Information. 2 II Some Desired Properties of the Thing called ?Information..12 III The Conditions Within which the Definition of Information will be Sought14 IV The Concept of the ?Object-in-General. V The ?Imbedded? Possibility of Experience. VI Some Preliminary Terms. VII A Working Definition of Information. VIII Kinds of Information. IX The Factors that Condition Information: Introductory. X Factors (cont?d): (A) Factors of the Order of Possibilities. XI Factors (cont?d): (B) Role Factors. XII Factors (cont?d): (C) Factors of Communicative Work. XIII Factors (cont?d): (D) Net Factors. XIV Summary of the Theory??.[margin note in text ? ?omitted?] XV Problems and Theorems Appendices: I Memo #1 Organizational Behavior Project, A Statement of the Problem of Communicative Strategies in Self-Maintaining Systems of Action. II Memo #2 Organizational Behavior Project , October 4, 1951 Some Problematical Areas in the Study of Communicative Work??...16 pages III Initial Proposal for Some Studies of the Determinants of the Effectiveness of the Communicative Work of Leaders??.???6 pages IV Predicting the Effects of Time and Rate of Supervisory Succession Upon Group Performance. V Bastrop Notes, July 24, 1942.

Summary: Although famous as a sociologist of everyday life, Garfinkel's new book focuses on the concerns of large-scale organisation and decision-making. In the fifty years since Garfinkel wrote his original treatise, there has been no systematic treatment of the problems and issues he raises. Nor has anyone proposed a theory of information like the one he proposed. Many of the same problems that troubled theorists of information and predictable order in 1952 are still problematic today. Social sciences.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine derived contents note: Table Of Contents
I Various Conceptions of Information. 2
II Some Desired Properties of the Thing called ?Information..12
III The Conditions Within which the Definition of Information will be Sought14
IV The Concept of the ?Object-in-General.
V The ?Imbedded? Possibility of Experience.
VI Some Preliminary Terms.
VII A Working Definition of Information.
VIII Kinds of Information.
IX The Factors that Condition Information: Introductory.
X Factors (cont?d): (A) Factors of the Order of Possibilities.
XI Factors (cont?d): (B) Role Factors.
XII Factors (cont?d): (C) Factors of Communicative Work.
XIII Factors (cont?d): (D) Net Factors.
XIV Summary of the Theory??.[margin note in text ? ?omitted?]
XV Problems and Theorems
Appendices:
I Memo #1 Organizational Behavior Project,
A Statement of the Problem of Communicative Strategies in Self-Maintaining Systems of Action.
II Memo #2 Organizational Behavior Project , October 4, 1951
Some Problematical Areas in the Study of Communicative Work??...16 pages
III Initial Proposal for Some Studies of the Determinants of the
Effectiveness of the Communicative Work of Leaders??.???6 pages
IV Predicting the Effects of Time and Rate of Supervisory Succession
Upon Group Performance.
V Bastrop Notes, July 24, 1942.

Although famous as a sociologist of everyday life, Garfinkel's new book focuses on the concerns of large-scale organisation and decision-making. In the fifty years since Garfinkel wrote his original treatise, there has been no systematic treatment of the problems and issues he raises. Nor has anyone proposed a theory of information like the one he proposed. Many of the same problems that troubled theorists of information and predictable order in 1952 are still problematic today.
Social sciences.

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