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Incorporating Texts Into Institutional Ethnographies
Dorothy E. Smith (Edited by), Susan Marie Turner (Edited by)
9781442614802
Paperback / softback, published 20 May 2014
344 pages, 12 figures
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.5 kg
‘Smith’s conceptualization of texts and their powerful role in contemporary society is a vital contribution for all sociologists, not just institutional ethnographers.’
In Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies, Dorothy E. Smith and Susan Marie Turner present a selection of essays highlighting perhaps the single most distinctive feature of the sociological approach known as Institutional Ethnography (IE) – the ethnographic investigation of how texts coordinate and organize people’s activities across space and time. The chapters, written by scholars who are relatively new to IE as well as IE veterans, illustrate the wide variety of ways in which IE investigations can be done, as well as the breadth of topics IE has been used to study. Both a collection of examples that can be used in teaching and research project design and an excellent introduction to IE methods and techniques, Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies is an essential contribution to the subject.
Introduction (Dorothy E. Smith & Susan Marie Turner) Part 1: Institutional Circuits Part 2: Diverse Textual Technologies Part 3: Experiential Ethnography Part 4: Text-Reader Conversations Part 5: Extended Institutional Ethnography Afterword (Dorothy E. Smith and Susan Marie Turner) Bibliography
Chapter 1. Policing the Gay Community: An Inquiry into Textually-mediated Social Relations (George W. Smith)
Chapter 2. Regulating the Alternative: Certifying Organic Farming on Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Katherine Wagner)
Chapter 3. Negotiating UN Policy: Activating Texts in Policy Deliberations (Lauren Eastwood)
Chapter 4. Producing “What the Deans Know”: Cost Accounting and the Restructuring of Post-secondary Education (Liza McCoy)
Chapter 5. Organizing Creation: The Work of the Musical Text in Concert Performance (Leanne Warren)
Chapter 6. “Three in a Bed”: Nurses and Technologies of Bed Utilization in a Hospital (Janet M. Rankin and Marie L. Campbell)
Chapter 7. Doing Child Protection Work (Gerald de Montigny)
Chapter 8. Reading Practices in Decision Processes (Susan M. Turner)
Chapter 9. Discourse as Social Relations: Sociological Theory and the Dialogic of Sociology (Dorothy E Smith)
Chapter 10. Standardizing Child Rearing through Housing (Paul C. Luken and Suzanne Vaughan)
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