Institutional Ethnography: a Sociology for People

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Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social organization. This sociology from women's standpoints reveals the present but largely unseen social relations of everyday life. This will be a foundational text for classes in sociology, ethnography, and women's studies.

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Full title :Institutional Ethnography : a Sociology for People.

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Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Altamira Press
Place of Publication:Lanham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

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Description:1 online resource (405 pages)

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ISBN:9780759114814, 0759114811
oclc:ocn854521651
LC Classification:GN345 .S57 2005
Dewey Decimal:305.8/001

THE GENDER LENS SERIES; BOOKS IN THE SERIES; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; SERIES EDITORS' FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1 -- Making a Sociology for People; CHAPTER 1 -- Women's Standpoint Embodied Knowing versus the Ruling Relations; Women's Standpoint and the Ruling Relations; The Historical Trajectory of Gender and the Ruling Relations; Notes; CHAPTER 2 -- Knowing the Social An Alternative Design; Reorganizing the Social Relations of Objectivity; What Is Institutional Ethnography? Some Contrasts; Experience and the Ethnographic Problematic.

ConclusionPART 2 -- An Ontology of the Social; CHAPTER 3 -- Designing an Ontology for Institutional Ethnography; An Ontology of the Social; Institutions, Language, and Texts; Conclusion; Notes; CHAPTER 4 -- Language as Coordinating Subjectivities; Reconceptualizing Language as Social; Experiential and Text-Based Territories; Conclusion; Notes; PART 3 -- Making Institutions Ethnographically Accessible; CHAPTER 5 -- Texts, Text-Reader Conversations, and Institutional Discourse; The Text-Reader Conversation; The Text-Reader Conversations of Institutional Discourse; Texts as Institutional Coordinator…

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Ethnologie -- Méthodologie Ethnologie -- Recherche Ethnology -- Methodology Ethnology -- Research Etnografie Instituties Methodologie SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies Sociologie Sociology Vrouwen