2022
DOI: 10.4000/philosophiascientiae.3619
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Transposing Gestalt Phenomena from Visual Fields to Practical and Interactional Work: Garfinkel’s and Sacks’ Social Praxeology

Abstract: Dans les conférences et les écrits des décennies qui ont suivi la publication de Studies in Ethnomethodology [1967], Harold Garfinkel, le fondateur de l'ethnométhodologie, a développé ce qu'il a appelé une « mauvaise lecture » des écrits phénoménologiques d'Aron Gurwitsch, de Maurice Merleau-Ponty et d'autres. La « mauvaise lecture » de Garfinkel comprenait un traitement sélectif et créatif des thèmes que Gurwitsch avait tirés de la psychologie gestaltiste, tels que la figure et le fond, la contexture gestalti… Show more

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“…In Studies, this insight is operationalised as a framework for seeing ethnomethodologically, such that actions of members are seen as constituents of Gestalten, where the Gestalten are Durkheimian social facts or units. This provides Garfinkel with a framework for ethnomethodology's studies, which respecifies Durkheimian social facts as Gestalt phenomena and individual actors as members of the Gestalt contexture, producing the Gestalt through their methodic action [e.g., Zielinska 2022, Hutchinson 2022, Lynch & Eisenmann 2022. So, where the social fact or unit is, for example, a formatted queue for the dining room, the members' actions in queueing-moving up as the line moves, telling the host how many are in their party, telling new members of the queue that "this is the back of the queue" and so on-are both ongoingly constitutive and productive of this queue-as-social-unit and gain their identity as the actions they are by being seen as, being witnessable as, constituents and as productive of the queue.…”
Section: Praxeology Praxeological Gestalts and Ethnomethodologymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In Studies, this insight is operationalised as a framework for seeing ethnomethodologically, such that actions of members are seen as constituents of Gestalten, where the Gestalten are Durkheimian social facts or units. This provides Garfinkel with a framework for ethnomethodology's studies, which respecifies Durkheimian social facts as Gestalt phenomena and individual actors as members of the Gestalt contexture, producing the Gestalt through their methodic action [e.g., Zielinska 2022, Hutchinson 2022, Lynch & Eisenmann 2022. So, where the social fact or unit is, for example, a formatted queue for the dining room, the members' actions in queueing-moving up as the line moves, telling the host how many are in their party, telling new members of the queue that "this is the back of the queue" and so on-are both ongoingly constitutive and productive of this queue-as-social-unit and gain their identity as the actions they are by being seen as, being witnessable as, constituents and as productive of the queue.…”
Section: Praxeology Praxeological Gestalts and Ethnomethodologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In late 2020, the group decided to work through the major work of the constitutive phenomenologist Aron Gurwitsch The Field of Consciousness [Gurwitsch 2010], [Gurwitsch 1957]. Part of the motivation for doing so was the avowed centrality of that work to Harold Garfinkel's development of Ethnomethodology (EM) [see Lynch & Eisenmann 2022, Hutchinson 2022] & [Eisenmann & Lynch 2021], [Garfinkel 2021] and, by extension, to Conversation Analysis (CA) [see Au-Yeung & Fitzgerald 2022, Lynch & Eisenmann 2022]. In working through The Field of Consciousness, it became apparent that one could not separate the importance of Gurwitsch's thought to Garfinkel's development of EM from the centrality of the Gestalt Psychology of the Berlin school to Gurwitsch's own development.…”
Section: Gurwitsch On Gestaltmentioning
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“…In contrast to asking how sense data is interpreted and organized in minds, categories, or concepts, Gurwitsch (1964) views perception as already (more or less) organized and thus as an “autochthonous achievement.” Garfinkel (2021) highlights this crucial consideration by speaking of an “endogenous achievement,” but transposes Gestalt-themes from such drawings and from the phenomenology of perception, into an “accomplishment” within the midst of everyday life: the complex ways of highly coordinated social practices. A Gestalt or, extending the argument with Merleau-Ponty (1962), a “phenomenal field” is thus a practical accomplishment formed in retro- and prospective organization, embodied orientation and work within the world that is performed in concert with the recognizable actions of others (Eisenmann and Lynch, 2021; Lynch and Eisenmann, 2022; Meyer, 2022).…”
Section: Introduction: Two Studies In the Makingmentioning
confidence: 99%