Harold Garfinkel Papers, 1959-1962

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Harold Garfinkel Papers, 1959-1962

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Harold Garfinkel was a professor of sociology at UCLA (1960- ). He received the Cooley-Mead Award of the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association (1995), and wrote (c1967). The collection consists of materials, mostly original in-letters, relating to a project to study the correspondence received by California Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, about the criminal case of Caryl Chessman (executed on May 2, 1960) and related issues such as capital punishment. Studies in ethnomethodology

148 boxes (74 linear ft.)

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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University of California, Los Angeles. Dept. of Sociology

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Biography Garfinkel received a BS in economics from the University of Newark in 1939; MA in sociology, University of North Carolina, 1942; Ph.D in sociology, Harvard University, 1952; assistant professor (1954-57) and professor of sociology beginning in 1960, UCLA; received the Cooley-Mead Award of the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association, 1995; wrote Studies in ethnomethodology (c1967). From the guid...