Institutional Ethnography as Practice

by Dorothy E. Smith (Editor), Marie L. Campbell (Contributor), Marjorie L. Devault (Contributor)

In this edited collection, institutional ethnographers draw on their field research experiences to address different aspects of institutional ethnographic practice. As institutional ethnography embraces the actualities of people's experiences and lives, the contributors utilize their research to reveal how institutional relations and regimes are organized. As a whole, the book aims to provide readers with an accurate overview of what it is like to practice institutional ethnography, as well as the main varieties of approaches involved in the research.

Genres: Anthropology

276 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Dorothy Edith Smith CM (born July 6, 1926) is a Canadian sociologist with research interests in a variety of disciplines, including women's studies, feminist theory, psychology, and educational studies, as well as in certain subfields of sociology, such as the sociology of knowledge, family studies, and methodology. Smith founded the sociological sub-disciplines of feminist standpoint theory and institutional ethnography.

Reviews

[Lorette]

More SNAF discussion with Alison Griffith. Essays on institutional ethnography, edited by Smith, more or less.