1+ week, 6+ day ago (868+ words) In the early 1960s, a young sociologist named Don Zimmerman arrived in Santa Barbara carrying with him the seeds of a revolution few yet recognized. Before completing his doctorate at UCLA under Harold Garfinkel " the pioneering sociologist who launched ethnomethodology " Zimmerman stepped into a discipline unsure of how best to study everyday life. Sociologists were divided about which methods mattered most, and Zimmerman simply kept looking closely at what people actually do. For Zimmerman, the foundations of social life were never abstract structures or grand theories. Social order, he taught, is an ongoing accomplishment of ordinary people acting together in real time. In classrooms filled with students eager to understand how society actually works, he cultivated the disciplined craft of noticing " how talk organizes cooperation, how paperwork sustains institutions, how gestures carry moral weight. At a moment when sociology chased sweeping…...