During the 1992–1993 academic year, Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011) offered a graduate seminar on Ethnomethodology in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. One topic that was given extensive coverage in the seminar has not been discussed at much length in Garfinkel’s published works to date: Aron Gurwitsch’s treatment of Gestalt theory, and particularly the themes of “phenomenal field” and “praxeological description”. The edited transcript of Garfinkel’s seminar shows why he recommended that “for the serious initiatives of ethnomethodological investigations […] Gurwitsch is a theorist we can’t do without”. Garfinkel’s ethnomethodological “misreading” is not a mistaken reading, but is more a matter of taking Gurwitsch’s phenomenological demonstrations of Gestalt contextures in phenomenal fields and transposing them for making detailed, concrete observations and descriptions of organizationally achieved social phenomena. Where Gurwitsch addresses the organization of perception as an autochthonous achievement, inherent to the stream and field of individual consciousness, Garfinkel extends and elaborates this field into the social world of enacted practices. The April 1993 seminar also is rich with brief asides and digressions in which Garfinkel comments about his use of Alfred Schutz, his attitude toward publishing, his relationship with Erving Goffman, and many other matters.

在1992–1993学年期间，Harold Garfinkel（1917–2011）在美国加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校的社会学系提供了关于民族方法论的研究生研讨会。迄今为止，在研讨会上得到广泛报道的一个主题在Garfinkel的已发表著作中并未进行过多讨论：Aron Gurwitsch对格式塔理论的处理，尤其是“现象领域”和“人类学描述”的主题。加芬克尔（Garfinkel）研讨会的笔录记录了为什么他建议“对于民族方法学研究的严肃倡议[...]古维兹是一个我们不能没有的理论家”。加芬克尔的民族方法学“误读”没有误解阅读，但更多的是采取古维特奇（Gurwitsch）在现象领域对格式塔语境的现象学论证，并将其转换为对组织实现的社会现象进行详细，具体的观察和描述。在古维茨（Gurwitsch）将知觉的组织视为一种自发成就的过程中，这是个人意识的流域和领域所固有的，而加芬克尔（Garfinkel）将这一领域扩展并阐述到了已成文习俗的社会世界中。1993年4月的研讨会还充斥着简短的讨论和题外话，其中Garfinkel谈到了他对Alfred Schutz的使用，对出版的态度，与Erving Goffman的关系以及许多其他事项。