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Institutional ethnography : a sociology for people / Dorothy E. Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The gender lens seriesLanham: AltaMira Press, 2005Description: xiv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780759105027 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8001 SMI 23 014203
LOC classification:
  • GN345 .S57 2005
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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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.

"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.

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