Institutional ethnography : a sociology for people /

"Prominent sociologist Dorothy E. 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 viewpoi...

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Main Author: Smith, Dorothy E., 1926-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, c2005.
Series:Gender lens series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Women's standpoint: embodied knowing versus the ruling relations
  • Knowing the social: an alternative design
  • Designing an ontology for institutional ethnography
  • Language as coordinating subjectivities
  • Texts, text-reader conversations, and institutional discourse
  • Experience as dialogue and data
  • Work knowledges
  • Texts and institutions
  • Power, language, and institutions
  • Where we've got to and where we can go.