摘要：In 1974 Egon Bittner gave a guest lecture to the Sociology Department at theUniversity of Manchester. He explained some of the major ideas that HaroldGarfinkel had introduced in his book Studies in Ethnomethodology such as‘indexicality’ and ‘reflexivity’ and ‘the documentary method of interpretation’.Although Bittner explained these very well I remember being disappointed that hehad not presented some of his own work, especially since it had not been longsince Garfinkel, himself, had presented, while he was The Visiting Simon Professorin the Department, a series of lectures that dealt, at length, with the issues thatBittner was addressing.
