ロビン・スミス氏のツィート；
Just heard Aaron Cicourel has died. He offered profound critiques of social science methodology whilst demonstrating clear ways forward. It was a privilege to have spent time with him. I treasure those conversations - of method, action, and cognition - dearly.
— Rob Smith (@Dr_Robin_Smith) 2023年7月29日
Go read “M&M” pic.twitter.com/Mgjg10nGbT
また、
We are saddened that our dear colleague Dr. Aaron Cicourel died July 22, 2023. He was a brilliant sociological theorists, a mentor to many & continued his participation with the UCSF Institute for Health & Aging long after retirement. 💐 We will miss him. https://t.co/cRkspJxqGh
— Emancipatory Sciences Lab (@EmancipatoryLab) 2023年7月29日
94歳か！
それにしても、一般の新聞だけでなく、大学関係のサイトにも訃報が乗っていない。それは、米国の大学が今夏休み中だということと関係があるのだろうか？
シクレル*1が研究した対象（ネタ）というのはビブリオグラフィを一瞥してもわかるように、「出生率」、「教育における意思決定」、「少年司法」等々と、よく言えば広範な関心、悪く言えばばらばらという印象を受ける。これらをひっくるめて〈シクレルの社会学〉とは何かと答えるのはなかなか難しい。他方、方法論的準位に目を向ければ、著書Cognitive Sociologyに集約されるような「認知的アプローチ（cognitive approach）ということになるのだろうか？
Sociology Guideという大学生向け（？）のサイトにある”Aaron Cicourel's Cognitive Approach”というテクストをコピペしておく；
In his method and measurement in sociology Aaron Cicourel launched a line of attack on sociology similar to Sacks. The use of mathematics will not remove the problems associated with language, because mathematics is a language that does not necessarily correspond to the phenomena that it describes. Instead it distorts and obliterates acts as a filter or grid for that which will pass as knowledge in a given era. The use of statistics similarly distorts; events cannot be counted, averaged and otherwise manipulated. Such statistical manipulations soon make sociological descriptions inaccurate and mold sociological analysis to the dictates of statistical logic.Cicourel also questions Garfinkle's assertion that interaction and verbal accounts are the same process.Cicourel notes that humans see, sense and feel much that they cannot communicate with words. Humans use multiple modalities for communicating in situations. Verbal accounts represent crude and incomplete translations of what is actually communicated in interaction. This recognition has led Cicourel to rename his brand of ethnomethodology cognitive sociology.
Cicourel has sought to uncover the universal interpretative procedures by which the humans organize their cognitions and give meaning to situations. It is through these interpretative procedures that people develop a sense of social structure and are able to organize their actions. These interpretative procedures are universal and invariant in humans and their discovery would allow for understanding of how humans create a sense of social structure in the world around them.
https://www.sociologyguide.com/ethnomethodology/aaron-cicourel-cognitive.php
