Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for PeopleRowman Altamira, 2005 - 257 pages Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the detached viewpoint of the researcher, this is a method of inquiry for people, incorporating the expert's research and language into everyday experience to examine social relations and institutions. The book begins by examining the foundations of institutional ethnography in women's movements, differentiating it from other related sociologies; the second part offers an ontology of the social; and the third illustrates this ontology through an array of institutional ethnography examples. This will be a foundational text for classes in sociology, ethnography, and women's studies. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Making a Sociology for People | 5 |
Womens Standpoint Embodied Knowing versus the Ruling Relations | 7 |
Womens Standpoint and the Ruling Relations | 9 |
The Historical Trajectory of Gender and the Ruling Relations | 13 |
Knowing the Social An Alternative Design | 27 |
Reorganizing the Social Relations of Objectivity | 28 |
What Is Institutional Ethnography? Some Contrasts | 29 |
An Alternative Understanding of Experience as Dialogue | 127 |
Experience Language and Social Organization | 128 |
The Data Dialogues | 135 |
Conclusion | 142 |
Work Knowledges | 145 |
Work Knowledge as the Institutional Ethnographers Data | 150 |
Work Knowledge | 151 |
The Problem of Institutional Capture | 155 |
Experience and the Ethnographic Problematic | 38 |
Conclusion | 43 |
An Ontology of the Social | 47 |
Designing an Ontology for Institutional Ethnography | 49 |
An Ontology of the Social | 51 |
Institutions Language and Texts | 68 |
Conclusion | 69 |
Language as Coordinating Subjectivities | 75 |
Reconceptualizing Language as Social | 76 |
Experiential and TextBased Territories | 86 |
Conclusion | 94 |
Making Institutions Ethnographically Accessible | 99 |
Texts TextReader Conversations and Institutional Discourse | 101 |
The Text Reader Conversation | 104 |
The Text Reader Conversations of Institutional Discourse | 111 |
Texts as Institutional Coordinators | 118 |
Conclusion | 119 |
Experience as Dialogue and Data | 123 |
The Problem | 124 |
Assembling and Mapping Work Knowledges | 157 |
Conclusion | 161 |
Texts and Institutions | 165 |
How Texts Coordinate | 170 |
Conclusion | 180 |
Power Language and Institutions | 183 |
Making Institutional Realities | 187 |
Regulatory Frames | 191 |
Conclusion | 199 |
Conclusion | 203 |
Where Weve Got To and Where We Can Go | 205 |
Expansion | 212 |
The Collective Work of Institutional Ethnography | 219 |
Glossary | 223 |
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