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978-0-7425-4676-9 • Hardback • June 2006 • $144.00 • (£111.00)
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Dorothy E. Smith is professor emerita in Sociology & Equity Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and adjunct professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Part I: institutional ethnographic data: interview observation and text
Chapter 3 Institutional ethnography: using interviews to investigate Ruling Relations Marjorie L. DeVault and Liza McCoy
Chapter 4 "Where did you get the fur coat Fern?" Participant observation in institutional ethnography
Chapter 5 Incorporating texts into ethnographic practice
Chapter 6 Part II: Analysis
Chapter 7 Data: what it is and what to do with it:institutional ethnography and experience as data
Chapter 8 Keeping the institution in view: working with interview accounts of everyday experience
Chapter 9 Mapping institutions as work and text
Chapter 10 Constructing single-parent families for schooling:discovering an institutional discourse
Chapter 11 Part III Inquiry
Chapter 12 A research proposal
Chapter 13 Making the institution ethnographically accessible: UN document production and the transformation of experience
Chapter 14 U.S. judicial interventions in the lives of battered women: an Indigenous community's assessment
This is an extraordinary text that should be read by all scholars, students and activists who are interested in exploring how the social world is put together. Taken together, the chapters provide a comprehensive methodological road map for designing research that starts in people's actual experiences to reveal how ruling relations organize everyday life. Smith has gathered together the best practitioners of institutional ethnography to help bring her feminist methodology to life. This insightful and accessible collection offers inspiration and practical advice to all who yearn for a sociology that can make a difference in people's lives.
— Nancy Naples, professor of sociology and women's studies, University of Connecticut
This collection examines institutional ethnography as a theoretical perspective and methodological approach for developing and understanding of complex social structure as it is perceived by and impacts the individual, with a focus on organizations that address social problems. Recommended. Libraries serving sociology, social work, or women's studies departments that offer advanced degrees.
— Choice Reviews
This collection provides a valuable and readable introduction to the work of doing IE.
— British Journal of Sociology
With its focus upon lived experiences within relations of ruling, Institutional Ethnography as Practice offers a distinctive and highly valuable perspective on the constitution of social life. This collection, which deserves to be read by social researchers in general, advances our understanding through accounts of the experiences and results of those who have been inspired by its practices.
— Tim May, professor of sociology and Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures, University of Salford