Institutional Ethnography A Sociology for People,9780759105027

Institutional Ethnography A Sociology for People

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ISBN13: 9780759105027
ISBN10: 0759105022
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-05-26
Publisher(s): AltaMira Press
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Dorothy E. Smith is professor emerita in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and adjunct professor, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1(6)
PART ONE Making a Sociology for People
Women's Standpoint: Embodied Knowing versus the Ruling Relations
7(20)
Women's Standpoint and the Ruling Relations
9(4)
The Historical Trajectory of Gender and the Ruling Relations
13(14)
Knowing the Social: An Alternative Design
27(22)
Reorganizing the Social Relations of Objectivity
28(1)
What Is Institutional Ethnography? Some Contrasts
29(9)
Experience and the Ethnographic Problematic
38(5)
Conclusion
43(6)
PART TWO An Ontology of the Social
Designing an Ontology for Institutional Ethnography
49(26)
An Ontology of the Social
51(17)
Institutions, Language, and Texts
68(1)
Conclusion
69(6)
Language as Coordinating Subjectivities
75(26)
Reconceptualizing Language as Social
76(10)
Experiential and Text-Based Territories
86(8)
Conclusion
94(7)
PART THREE Making Institutions Ethnographically Accessible
Texts, Text--Reader Conversations, and Institutional Discourse
101(22)
The Text--Reader Conversation
104(7)
The Text--Reader Conversations of Institutional Discourse
111(7)
Texts as Institutional Coordinators
118(1)
Conclusion
119(4)
Experience as Dialogue and Data
123(22)
Experience as Dialogue: The Problem
124(3)
An Alternative Understanding of Experience as Dialogue
127(1)
Experience, Language, and Social Organization
128(7)
The Data Dialogues
135(7)
Conclusion
142(3)
Work Knowledges
145(20)
Work Knowledge of University Grades and Grading: A Mini-ethnography
145(5)
Work Knowledge as the Institutional Ethnographer's Data
150(1)
Work Knowledge
151(4)
The Problem of Institutional Capture
155(2)
Assembling and Mapping Work Knowledges
157(4)
Conclusion
161(4)
Texts and Institutions
165(18)
How Texts Coordinate
170(10)
Conclusion
180(3)
Power, Language, and Institutions
183(22)
Making Institutional Realities
187(4)
Regulatory Frames
191(8)
Conclusion
199(6)
PART FOUR Conclusion
Where We've Got To and Where We Can Go
205(18)
Where We've Got To
205(7)
Expansion
212(7)
The Collective Work of Institutional Ethnography
219(4)
Glossary 223(8)
Reference List 231(14)
Index 245(12)
About the Author 257

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