Simply Institutional Ethnography: Creating a Sociology for People - Softcover

Smith, Dorothy E.; Griffith, Alison I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 148752806X ISBN 13: 9781487528065

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2022

Synopsis

Institutional ethnography (IE) originated as a feminist alternative to sociologies defining people as the objects of study. Instead, IE explores the social relations that dominate the life of the particular subject in focus.

Simply Institutional Ethnography is written by two pioneers in the field and grounded in decades of ground-breaking work. Dorothy Smith and Alison Griffith lay out the basics of how institutional ethnography proceeds as a sociology. The book introduces the concepts – Discourse, Work, Text – that institutional ethnographers have found to be key ideas used to organize what they learn from the study of people’s experience. Simply Institutional Ethnography builds an ethnography that makes this material visible as coordinated sequences of social relations that reach beyond the particularities of local experience. In explicating the foundations of IE and its principal concepts, Simply Institutional Ethnography reflects on the ways in which the field may move forward.

About this title

About the Author

Dorothy E. Smith is an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria.
Alison I. Griffith was a professor emerita in the Faculty of Education at York University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 148752806X
• ISBN 13: 9781487528065
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 154