Institutional Ethnography

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Institutional ethnography (IE) is a sociological method of inquiry. IE was created to explore the social relations that structure people's everyday lives. For the institutional ethnographer, ordinary daily activity becomes the site for an investigation of social organization. IE was first developed by Dorothy E. Smith as a Marxist feminist sociology "for women, for people;" and is now used by researchers in social sciences, education, human services and policy research as a method for mapping the translocal relations that coordinate people's activities within institutions.

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• What is institutional ethnography?
• Institutional Ethnography – Towards a Productive Sociology. An Interview with Dorothy E. Smith by Karin Widerberg (MS Word document)
• Dorothy E. Smith (Ed.) Institutional Ethnography as Practice reviewed by Kevin Walby, Carleton University