This book provides the first genuinely intelligible and reasonably systematic presentation of this perspective and contributed to the restructuring of empirical knowledge upon solid foundations. It remains important to those who would understood these areas of the social sciences and their potential to contribute to understanding of social life.

Preface

PART ONE: ABSOLUTIST SOCIOLOGIES AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGIES
1. Understanding Everyday Life
Jack D. Douglas
2. Alfred Schutz and the Sociology of Common-sense Knowledge
John Heeren
3. Normative and Interpretive Paradigms in Sociology
Thomas P. Wilson
4. The Everyday World as a Phenomenon
Don H. Zimmerman and Melvin Pollner

PART TWO: CONSTRUCTING SITUATIONAL MEANINGS: LANGUAGE, MEANING AND ACTION
5. On Meaning by Rule
D. Lawrence Wieder
6. The Acquisition of Social Structure: Toward a Developmental Sociology of Language and Meaning
Aaron V. Cicourel
7. Words, Utterances, and Activities
Roy Turner
8. The Everyday World of the Child
Matthew Speier

PART THREE: RULES, SITUATED MEANINGS, AND ORGANIZED ACTIVITIES
9. The Practicalities of Rule Use
Don H. Zimmerman
10. Talking and Becoming: A View of Organizational Socialization
Peter K. Manning

PART FOUR: SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM AND ETHNOMETHODOLOGY
11. Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnomethodology
Norman K. Denzin
12. Ethnomethodology and the Problem of Order: Comment on Denzin
Don H. Zimmerman and D. Lawrence Wieder

PART FIVE: SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND TRUTH
13. Theorizing Alan F. Blum
14. On the Failure of Positivism Peter McHugh
References
Index