{"product_id":"incorporating-texts-into-institutional-ethnographies-paperback-softback-9781442614802","title":"Incorporating Texts Into Institutional Ethnographies (Paperback \/ softback) 9781442614802","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIncorporating Texts Into Institutional Ethnographies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDorothy E. Smith (Edited by), Susan Marie Turner (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442614802\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 May 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages, 12 figures\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;Smith\u0026amp;#x2019;s conceptualization of texts and their powerful role in contemporary society is a vital contribution for all sociologists, not just institutional ethnographers.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Órla Meadhbh (Sociology vol 49:06:2015)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eIncorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoth a collection of examples that can be used in teaching and research project design and an excellent introduction to IE methods and techniques, \u003cem\u003eIncorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential contribution to the subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction (Dorothy E. Smith \u0026amp; Susan Marie Turner)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 1: Institutional Circuits\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 1. Policing the Gay Community: An Inquiry into Textually-mediated Social Relations (George W. Smith)\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 2. Regulating the Alternative: Certifying Organic Farming on Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Katherine Wagner)\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 3. Negotiating UN Policy: Activating Texts in Policy Deliberations (Lauren Eastwood)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 2: Diverse Textual Technologies\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 4. Producing “What the Deans Know”: Cost Accounting and the Restructuring of Post-secondary Education (Liza McCoy)\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 5. Organizing Creation: The Work of the Musical Text in Concert Performance (Leanne Warren)\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 6. “Three in a Bed”: Nurses and Technologies of Bed Utilization in a Hospital (Janet M. Rankin and Marie L. Campbell)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 3: Experiential Ethnography\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 7. Doing Child Protection Work (Gerald de Montigny)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 4: Text-Reader Conversations\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 8. Reading Practices in Decision Processes (Susan M. Turner)\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 9. Discourse as Social Relations: Sociological Theory and the Dialogic of Sociology (Dorothy E Smith)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 5: Extended Institutional Ethnography\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 10. Standardizing Child Rearing through Housing (Paul C. Luken and Suzanne Vaughan)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword (Dorothy E. Smith and Susan Marie Turner)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52742490587416,"sku":"9781442614802","price":25.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/incorporating-texts-into-institutional-ethnographies-paperback-softback-9781442614802","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}