«Праксеологическое правило» Г. Гарфинкеля: специфика этнометодологического исследования порядка

Социологическое обозрение. 2025. Т. 24. № 3. С. 173–196.

Слобода Н. М.

This article analyzes the “praxeological rule” as a core component of ethnomethodological research
policy, exploring its connection to the problem of social order. The author examines the rule in
two interconnected aspects: ontological and epistemological. Ontologically, the rule is found in
the everyday constitution of social order, while epistemologically, it is proposed by Garfinkel as a
principle of inquiry.
The “praxeological rule” allowed Garfinkel to define the conceptual field of early
ethnomethodology, focusing on a critique of normative social order and its theoretical
understanding, while developing an alternative conception of social order. In the 1970s,
ethnomethodology’s research policy underwent a transformation, resulting in a more radical
understanding of constitutive order. This shift also radicalized the “praxeological rule.” The rule now
emphasizes adherence not to actors’ interpretive orientations in co-constituting order, but to an
autochthonous, constitutive order that requires no special theory.
The article’s main contribution is its demonstration that appealing to the idea of the “praxeological
rule” is key to understanding ethnomethodology’s research policy and its relationship to the problem of order throughout the evolution of Garfinkel’s ideas. This rule allows for the mapping of
Garfinkel’s phenomenological and pragmatist strategies of thought, which resolve the difficulty of
correlating the formal and informal in the production and study of practices that constitute social
order.
 

Keywords: социальный порядок, social order, ситуационизм, situationism, Praxeological rule, routine rationality, autochthonous order, routine practices, Праксеологическое правило, Повседневная рациональность, автохтонный порядок, рутинные практики

Publication based on the results of: National philosophy and culture: spiritual and moral values (2025)