Harold Garfinkel

Do not even attempt to fool the subject.

Harvard sociologist Harold Garfinkel wrote in his 1956 essay, conditions of successful degradation ceremonies.

Quote, any communicative work between persons whereby the public identify of an actor, I'm sorry, where the public identity of an actor is transformed into something looked on as lower in the local scheme of social types will be called a status degradation ceremony.

Garfinkel describes this process as a status degradation ceremony.

He also had a tremendous gift for mirroring people, for figuring out very quickly what people wanted to hear and wanted to believe.

And getting down to the specifics, Castaneda's mentor at UCLA was a fellow named Harold Garfinkel, who was actually a sociologist, a brilliant sociologist by some lights, one of the most important sociologists.

of the 20th century, but very radical, basically, and a lot of people hated him.

But he started something called ethno-methodology, which is, on the one hand, a very microscopic analysis of the practices of social scientists, including anthropologists.