Abstract
Half-century of the publication of Harold Garfinkel's Studies in Ethnomethodology (1967) is taken as an occasion for retrospective. The main question of the text is whether we can describe the development of Garfinkel's oeuvre in terms of continuities or rather in terms of transformations.
In spite of the profound changes in Garfinkel's ethnomethodology, related especially to the ethnomethodological studies of work, its foundation has always been the deep respect to the practical/embodied knowledge of the members in its specific situated expressions, which is for ethnomethodology the central topic of sociology.