해럴드 가핑클

소개

해럴드 가핑클(Harold Garfinkel, 1917년 10월 29일 ~ 2011년 4월 21일)은 미국의 사회학자이다. 《민속지학 연구》(Studies in Ethnomethodology, 1967)로 알려져 있으며, 민속지를 사회학의 연구 방법으로 발전시키고 정립하는데 공헌하였다.

Harold Garfinkel was an American sociologist and ethnomethodologist, who taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. Having developed and established ethnomethodology as a field of inquiry in sociology, he is probably best known for Studies in Ethnomethodology (1967), a collection of articles. Selections from unpublished materials were later published in two volumes: Seeing Sociologically and Ethnomethodology's Program. Moreover, during his time at University of Newark, which became Rutgers University, he enrolled in Theory of Accounts, a course that covered accounting and bookkeeping procedures. Where from this class "even in setting up an accounting sheet, he was theorizing the various categories into which the numbers would be placed" which furthered his understanding of accountability.