Harold Garfinkel, Anne Rawls

Toward A Sociological Theory of Information (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1952 at Princeton University, Harold Garfinkel developed a sociological theory of information. Other prominent theories then being worked out at Princeton, including game theory, neglected the social elements of "information," modeling a rational individual whose success depends on completeness of both reason and information. In real life these conditions are not possible and these approaches therefore have always had limited and problematic practical application. Garfinkel's sociological theory treats information as a thoroughly organized social phenomenon in a way that addresses these shortcomings comprehensively. Although famous as a sociologist of everyday life, Garfinkel focuses in this new book-never before published-on the concerns of large-scale organization and decisionmaking. In the fifty years since Garfinkel wrote this 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317250258
• Artikelnr.: 49352938

Autorenporträt

Garfinkel, Harold; Rawls, Anne

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's Introduction Anne Warfield Rawls
Garfinkel: Memo #3: Organizational Behavior Project
April 17
1952
Introduction
I Various Conceptions of Information
II Some Desired Properties of the Thing Called "Information"
III The Conditions within Which a Definition of Information Will Be Sought
IV 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: Introduction
X Factors That Condition Information: (A) Factors of the Order of Possibilities
XI Factors That Condition Information: (B) Role Factors
XII Factors That Condition Information: (C) Factors of Communicative Work
XIII Factors That Condition Information: (D) Net-work Factors
XIV Summary of the Theory (Omitted)
XV Problems and Theorems
Appendix 1 Memo #1 (undated): A Statement of the Problem of Communicative Strategies in Self-Maintaining Systems of Activity
Appendix 2 Memo #2
October 4
1951: Some Problematical Areas in the Study of Communicative Work
Appendix 3 Research Proposal Draft (undated): Initial Proposal for Some Studies of the Determinants of the Effectiveness of the Communicative Work of Leaders
Appendix 4 Research Proposal Abstract
June 1953: Predicting the Effects of Time and Rate of Supervisory Succession upon Group Performance
Appendix 5 Research Report for Wilbert Moore
July 24
1942: Bastrop Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author and Editor