Abstract

Translation of the first chapter of the «Ethnomethodology’s program» by Harold Garfinkel. The chapter is about the fundamentals of the social sciences – social order in the «immortal ordinary society». As the subtitle says, this is a working out of Durkheim’s aphorism. The backgrounds of the ethnomethodology are settled forth once again – phenomenological field properties, order in the plenum, the opposition to the mainstream «formal analysis» in sociology – and explored in details performed by the new agenda and the new language of ethnomethodology