TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Dorothy E.
TI  - Institutional ethnography: a sociology for people 
SN  - 9780759105027 (pbk.)
AV  - GN345 .S57 2005
U1  - 305.8001 SMI 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - AltaMira Press
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Research
KW  - Sociology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part One: Making a Sociology for People. 1. Women's Standpoint: Embodied Knowing versus the Ruling Relations
2. Knowing the Social: An Alternative Design
Part two: An Ontology of the Social. 3. Designing an Ontology for Institutional Ethnography
4. Language As Coordinating Subjectivities
Part three: Making Institutions Ethnographically Accessible. 5. Texts, Text-Reader Conversations, and Institutional Discourse
6. Experience as Dialogue and Data
7. Work Knowledges
8. Texts and Institutions
9. Power, Language, and Institutions
Part four: Conclusion. 10. Where We've Got to and Where We Can Go
N2  - "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 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."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -