Etnometodologia sotto le cancellature

This paper traces the development of a sociology of the witnessable social order following the publication of Garfinkel's Studies in Ethnomethodology. After reviewing the Parsonian legacy, Garfinkel's rendering theorem, and social objects, the paper discusses the problematic circumstances and phenomena involved in ethnomethodological studies of work. Several recent studies are then used to illustrate the shift completely outside the domain of classical sociological research. The paper concludes with a comparison between sociologies of the hidden and sociologies of the witnessable order, emphasizing the Jurassic technologies of doing, observing, describing, collecting, sketching, circling, comparing, analogizing, and demonstrating.