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'A crucial book for feminists, for sociology and the new "political
anthropological historical school". It informs us how we are
differently "situated" in and through social relations, which texts
and images mediate, organise and construct.' Philip Corrigan,
Professor of Applied Sociology, Exeter University Dorothy E. Smith
is Professor of Sociology in Education, Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education, Toronto. She is the author of The Everyday
World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology.
'A crucial book for feminists, for sociology and the new "political anthropological historical school". It informs us how we are differently "situated" in and through social relations, which texts and images mediate, organise and construct.' Philip Corrigan, Professor of Applied Sociology, Exeter University Dorothy E. Smith is Professor of Sociology in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto. She is the author of The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology. eBook available with sample pages: 0203425022
Institutional ethnography (IE) originated as a feminist alternative
to sociologies defining people as the objects of study. Instead, IE
explores the social relations that dominate the life of the
particular subject in focus. Simply Institutional Ethnography is
written by two pioneers in the field and grounded in decades of
ground-breaking work. Dorothy Smith and Alison Griffith lay out the
basics of how institutional ethnography proceeds as a sociology.
The book introduces the concepts - Discourse, Work, Text - that
institutional ethnographers have found to be key ideas used to
organize what they learn from the study of people's experience.
Simply Institutional Ethnography builds an ethnography that makes
this material visible as coordinated sequences of social relations
that reach beyond the particularities of local experience. In
explicating the foundations of IE and its principal concepts,
Simply Institutional Ethnography reflects on the ways in which the
field may move forward.
In this collection of essays, sociologist Dorothy E. Smith develops
a method for analyzing how women (and men) view contemporary
society from specific gendered points of view. She shows how social
relations - and the theories that describe them - must express the
concrete historical and geographical details of everyday lives. A
vital sociology from the standpoint of women, the volume is
applicable to a variety of subjects, and will be especially useful
in courses in sociological theory and methods.
In Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies, Dorothy
E. Smith and Susan Marie Turner present a selection of essays
highlighting perhaps the single most distinctive feature of the
sociological approach known as Institutional Ethnography (IE) - the
ethnographic investigation of how texts coordinate and organize
people's activities across space and time. The chapters, written by
scholars who are relatively new to IE as well as IE veterans,
illustrate the wide variety of ways in which IE investigations can
be done, as well as the breadth of topics IE has been used to
study.
Both a collection of examples that can be used in teaching and
research project design and an excellent introduction to IE methods
and techniques, Incorporating Texts into Institutional
Ethnographies is an essential contribution to the subject.
Using the global steel industry's status in the 1980s as a context,
this study follows its evolution from booming business to a
precipitous decline, comparing it to the current changes unfolding
within the Canadian steel industry. The chronicle demonstrates how
management demanded workers' augmented participation in
increasingly temporary and insecure labor. Workers at the flagship
Stelco plant in Hamilton, Ontario, are interviewed, and new
management strategies as well as the unionized workforces'
responses to them are documented. Illustrating the effects of the
industry's decline on the workers' communities as well, this series
of investigations reveals how the insight of today's steelworkers
is being dismissed in favor of an undermining academic knowledge.
In this edited collection, institutional ethnographers draw on
their field research experiences to address different aspects of
institutional ethnographic practice. As institutional ethnography
embraces the actualities of people's experiences and lives, the
contributors utilize their research to reveal how institutional
relations and regimes are organized. As a whole, the books aims to
provide readers with an accurate overview of what it is like to
practice institutional ethnography, as well as the main varieties
of approaches involved in the research.
In this edited collection, institutional ethnographers draw on
their field research experiences to address different aspects of
institutional ethnographic practice. As institutional ethnography
embraces the actualities of people's experiences and lives, the
contributors utilize their research to reveal how institutional
relations and regimes are organized. As a whole, the book aims to
provide readers with an accurate overview of what it is like to
practice institutional ethnography, as well as the main varieties
of approaches involved in the research.
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.
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