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Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the contribution offered by Wolff's sociology of knowledge to organizational ethnography and to enrich the lexicon of practice-based studies with the concept of surrender-and-catch.Design/methodology/approach– Drawing on Wolff's writing, the surrender-and-catch perspective is introduced and how to be inspired by it is illustrated in relation to three working practices.Findings– The centrality of the body and of sensible knowledge for doing ethnographies of working practices is affirmed and the surrender-and-catch perspective is interpreted as an art of seeing connections.Practical implications– Surrender-to may be included in the methodology for studying knowing-in-practice and it may help students to get prepared to conduct an organizational ethnography.Originality/value– A contribution to frame the legacy of a sociologist of knowledge little known in organization studies. Its contribution stresses the importance of a plurality of forms of knowing alongside the rational-analytic one. Therefore Kurt Wolff's work becomes relevant within the practice-based studies.

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