Institutional Ethnography (eBook)

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

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter I. Making a Sociology for People Chapter 3 Chapter 1. Women's Standpoint: Embodied Knowing versus the Ruling Relations Chapter 4 Women's Standpoint and the Ruling Relations Chapter 5 The Historical Trajectory of Gender and the Ruling Relations Chapter 6 Chapter 2. Knowing the Social: An Alternative Design Chapter 7 Reorganizing the Social Relations of Objectivity Chapter 8 What is Institutional Ethnography? Some Contrasts Chapter 9 Experience and the Ethnographic Problematic Chapter 10 Conclusion Chapter 11 Chapter II. An Ontology of the Social Chapter 12 Chapter 3. Designing an Ontology for Institutional Ethnography Chapter 13 An Ontology of the Social Chapter 14 Institutions, Language, and Texts Chapter 15 Conclusion Chapter 16 Chapter 4. Language As Coordinating Subjectivities Chapter 17 Reconceptualizing Language as Social Chapter 18 Experiential and Text-based Territories Chapter 19 Conclusion Chapter 20 Chapter III. Making Institutions Ethnographically Accessible Chapter 21 Chapter 5. Texts, Text-Reader Conversations, and Institutional Discourse Chapter 22 The Text-reader Conversation Chapter 23 The Text-reader Conversations of Institutional Discourse Chapter 24 Texts as Institutional Coordinators Chapter 25 Conclusion Chapter 26 Chapter 6. Experience as Dialogue and Data Chapter 27 Experience as Dialogue: The Problem Chapter 28 An alternative understanding of experience as dialogue Chapter 29 Experience, Language, and Social Organization Chapter 30 The Data Dialogues Chapter 31 Conclusion Chapter 32 Chapter 7. Work Knowledges Chapter 33 Work Knowledge of University Grades and Grading: A Mini- ethnography Chapter 34 Work Knowledge as the Institutional Ethnographer's Data Chapter 35 Work Knowledge Chapter 36 Assembling and Mapping Work Knowledges Chapter 37 The Problem of Institutional Capture Chapter 38 Conclusion Chapter 39 Chapter 8. Texts and Institutions Chapter 40 How Texts Coordinate Chapter 41 Conclusion Chapter 42 Chapter 9. Power, Language, and Institutions Chapter 43 Making Institutional Realities Chapter 44 Regulatory Frames Chapter 45 Conclusion Chapter 46 Conclusion Chapter 47 Chapter 10. Where We've Got to and Where We Can Go Chapter 48 Where We've Got To Chapter 49 Expansion Chapter 50 The Collective Work of Institutional Ethnography Chapter 51 Glossary Chapter 52 Reference List Chapter 53 Index Chapter 54 About the Author