お買いもの:ガーフィンケル『情報の社会学的理論へ向けて』

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ガーフィンケルプリンストン大学にいた1952年に書いたもの。

  • 書評: James Aho, 2010, Toward a Sociological Theory of Information by Harold Garfinkel and Anne Warfield Rawls, Human Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1 (May 2010), pp. 117-121
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/40981094

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.

Toward A Sociological Theory of Information

Toward A Sociological Theory of Information

  • 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 "Imbed
    • 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 Fators
    • 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)
    • XIV Problems and Theorems