1946年时哈佛大学在多个科系之间新组建了社会关系系(Department of Social Relations),加芬克尔进入这一新创不久的科系学习,结识塔尔科特·帕森斯。[8][12]帕森斯研究分类与概括,也强调这些内容,然而加芬克尔则更注意具体细节的描述。[8]「令加芬克尔与帕森斯其他学生和同事有所区别的地方在于他特别致力于经验研究(empirical studies)。比起问些例如支撑家庭结构必须有什么样的规范网络(normative network)之类的问题,加芬克尔会问『有些什么规范网络?』或者『有没有什么规范网络?』」[13]帕森斯在哈佛努力攻读学位的同时,社会学家威尔伯特·莫尔(英语:Wilbert E. Moore)邀请他到普林斯顿大学参与组织行为学课题。加芬克尔接受邀请,在普林斯顿执教两年。[8]这段经历又使他得以接触当时行为科学、信息科学、社会科学界最杰出的一些学者,其中有格雷戈里·贝特森、肯尼斯·伯克(英语:Kenneth Burke)、保罗·拉扎斯菲尔德、弗雷德里克·莫斯泰勒(英语:Frederick Mosteller)、菲利普·塞尔兹尼克、赫伯特·赛门、约翰·冯·诺伊曼等人。[14]1952年,加芬克尔完成博士论文《他者的感知:社会秩序的研究》(The Perception of the Other: A Study in Social Order)。
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