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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Harold Garfinkel papers
Creator:
Harold Garfinkel
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1273
Physical Description:
86.0 Linear Feet
(160 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1952-2007
Abstract: Harold Garfinkel was a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1954 to 1987. The papers
include: materials relating to Garfinkel's study of correspondence received by California Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown regarding
the criminal case of Caryl Chessman (executed on May 2, 1960) and issues regarding capital punishment; transcripts and audio
recordings of UCLA course lectures by Garfinkel (Sociology Department); correspondence; speeches and presentations; reprints;
research notes and data; and research proposals.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item], Harold Garfinkel papers (Collection 1273). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Professor Harold Garfinkel, 1981 and 2010.
Processed by Anne Caiger, 2003. Additions processed by Charlotte B. Brown, University Archivist, 2008-2010. Final processing
by Kelly Besser, 2013.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9942330613606533
Harold Garfinkel was the social theorist who developed and utilized ethnomethodology to study social thought and practice.
He received a BS in economics from the University of Newark in 1939; an MA in sociology from the University of North Carolina
in 1942; and a Ph.D in sociology from Harvard University in 1952. He worked as an assistant professor (1954-1957) and professor
of sociology (1960-1984) at UCLA. He received the Cooley-Mead Award of the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological
Association in 1995. He wrote
Studies in Ethnomethodology published in 1967.
The collection consists of materials relating to a project to study the correspondence received by the Governor of California,
about the case of Caryl Chessman, 1959-1960, and related issues such as capital punishment. Chessman was convicted on various
felony counts and his execution on May 2, 1960 brought to an end court proceedings that had lasted over a period of years.
The original letters to the Governor are arranged in several numbered sequences: a detailed description of both the arrangement
and the numbering system, which was set up by the Governor's Office and subsequently retained, is given in Box 2, as part
of what appears to be a draft progress report dated September 12, 1962, on the study project.
Correspondence is selected (not all correspondence is included).
The addition to the Harold Garfinkel Papers was acquired between 2008-2010 and includes Garfinkel's professional and research
files dating prior to and after Garfinkel's Chessman research; selected audio recordings; correspondence and printed email;
typed transcriptions of course lectures and presentations; reprints; research notes; and research proposals.
Ethnomethodology: "refer[s] to the investigation of the rational properties of indexical expressions and other practical actions
as contingent ongoing accomplishments of organized artful practices of everyday life."
Abbreviations used:
- HG = Harold Garfinkel
- NIMH = National Institute for Mental Health
- NPI = Neuropsychiatric Institute (University of California, Los Angeles)
Arranged in the following series:
Correspondence and other files re: project (Boxes 1-3).
Copies of case papers and court documents "Governor's Diary," 1959-60 (Box 4).
Card indexes re: project (Boxes 5-6).
Samples of original letters to California Governor re: Chessman case (Boxes 7-12).
Original letters to Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown (Boxes 13-148).
An additional group of material, unconnected to the Chessman correspondence project and relating to a patient study conducted
by the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, has been transferred to UCLA University Archives Record Series 627.
SEE ALSO: Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI). "Studies of Suitability for Psychiatric Outpatient Treatment" clinical study and
survey by Harold Garfinkel. (UCLA University Archives Record Series 627).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sociologists -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archives.
Garfinkel, Harold--Archives.
Chessman, Caryl
University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Sociology--Faculty -- Archives