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Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People

By Dorothy E. Smith

Book information

Publisher
AltaMira Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0759105022, 9780759105027
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10762353 bytes)
Series
Gender Lens Series
Edition
1st
Pages
272\263
Time added
2013-11-23 17:38:09

Description

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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