Harold Garfinkel
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Harold Garfinkel was an American sociologist best known as the founder of ethnomethodology, a field that studies the everyday methods people use to make sense of social life.
All labels observed (1)
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| Harold Garfinkel canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592485 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold Garfinkel Context triple: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hasPublished, Harold Garfinkel]
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A.
Herbert Blumer
Herbert Blumer was an American sociologist best known for coining the term "symbolic interactionism" and significantly shaping the Chicago School of sociology.
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B.
Erving Goffman
Erving Goffman was a Canadian sociologist renowned for his micro-sociological analyses of everyday life, particularly through concepts like dramaturgy, face-work, and the presentation of self.
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C.
Harvey Sacks
Harvey Sacks was an American sociologist and pioneering founder of conversation analysis, known for his influential work on the systematic organization of everyday talk.
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D.
Howard Becker
Howard Becker was an influential American sociologist best known for his work on deviance, labeling theory, and the sociology of art and music.
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E.
Dell Hymes
Dell Hymes was an American linguist, anthropologist, and folklorist best known for founding the field of ethnography of communication and advancing sociolinguistics.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold Garfinkel Target entity description: Harold Garfinkel was an American sociologist best known as the founder of ethnomethodology, a field that studies the everyday methods people use to make sense of social life.
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A.
Herbert Blumer
Herbert Blumer was an American sociologist best known for coining the term "symbolic interactionism" and significantly shaping the Chicago School of sociology.
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B.
Erving Goffman
Erving Goffman was a Canadian sociologist renowned for his micro-sociological analyses of everyday life, particularly through concepts like dramaturgy, face-work, and the presentation of self.
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C.
Harvey Sacks
Harvey Sacks was an American sociologist and pioneering founder of conversation analysis, known for his influential work on the systematic organization of everyday talk.
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D.
Howard Becker
Howard Becker was an influential American sociologist best known for his work on deviance, labeling theory, and the sociology of art and music.
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E.
Dell Hymes
Dell Hymes was an American linguist, anthropologist, and folklorist best known for founding the field of ethnography of communication and advancing sociolinguistics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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sociologist ⓘ |
| academicAdvisor | Talcott Parsons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1917-10-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2011-04-21 ⓘ |
| developedConcept |
accountability (in ethnomethodology)
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breaching experiment ⓘ indexicality (in ethnomethodology) ⓘ reflexivity (in ethnomethodology) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| era | 20th-century sociology ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Garfinkel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
conversation analysis
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ethnomethodology ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ social theory ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| givenName | Harold ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline | sociology ⓘ |
| hasStudent |
Gale Jefferson
NERFINISHED
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Harvey Sacks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Aaron Cicourel
NERFINISHED
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Conversation analysis NERFINISHED ⓘ Ethnomethodology NERFINISHED ⓘ Harvey Sacks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Alfred Schutz
NERFINISHED
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Edmund Husserl NERFINISHED ⓘ Talcott Parsons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | ethnomethodology ⓘ |
| name | Harold Garfinkel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding ethnomethodology ⓘ |
| notableWork | Studies in Ethnomethodology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
sociologist
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university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Newark, New Jersey, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDateOfNotableWork | 1967 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| taughtAt | University of California, Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theoreticalOrientation |
ethnomethodology
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phenomenological sociology ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles, California, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: Harold Garfinkel Description of subject: Harold Garfinkel was an American sociologist best known as the founder of ethnomethodology, a field that studies the everyday methods people use to make sense of social life.
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