ISBN:
0759105014
,
9780759105027
,
9780759105010
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIV, 257 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
The gender lens series
Parallel Title:
Print version Institutional Ethnography : A Sociology for People
DDC:
305.8/001
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
THE GENDER LENS SERIES; BOOKS IN THE SERIES; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; SERIES EDITORS' FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1 - Making a Sociology for People; CHAPTER 1 - Women's Standpoint Embodied Knowing versus the Ruling Relations; Women's Standpoint and the Ruling Relations; The Historical Trajectory of Gender and the Ruling Relations; Notes; CHAPTER 2 - Knowing the Social An Alternative Design; Reorganizing the Social Relations of Objectivity; What Is Institutional Ethnography? Some Contrasts; Experience and the Ethnographic Problematic
Description / Table of Contents:
ConclusionPART 2 - An Ontology of the Social; CHAPTER 3 - Designing an Ontology for Institutional Ethnography; An Ontology of the Social; Institutions, Language, and Texts; Conclusion; Notes; CHAPTER 4 - Language as Coordinating Subjectivities; Reconceptualizing Language as Social; Experiential and Text-Based Territories; Conclusion; Notes; PART 3 - Making Institutions Ethnographically Accessible; CHAPTER 5 - Texts, Text-Reader Conversations, and Institutional Discourse; The Text-Reader Conversation; The Text-Reader Conversations of Institutional Discourse; Texts as Institutional Coordinators
Description / Table of Contents:
ConclusionNotes; CHAPTER 6 - Experience as Dialogue and Data; Experience as Dialogue: The Problem; An Alternative Understanding of Experience as Dialogue; Experience, Language, and Social Organization; The Data Dialogues; Conclusion; Notes; CHAPTER 7 - Work Knowledges; Work Knowledge of University Grades and Grading: A Mini-ethnography; Work Knowledge as the Institutional Ethnographer's Data; Work Knowledge; The Problem of Institutional Capture; Assembling and Mapping Work Knowledges; Conclusion; Notes; CHAPTER 8 - Texts and Institutions; How Texts Coordinate; Conclusion; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 9 - Power, Language, and InstitutionsMaking Institutional Realities; Regulatory Frames; Conclusion; Notes; PART 4 - Conclusion; CHAPTER 10 - Where We've Got To and Where We Can Go; Where We've Got To; Expansion; The Collective Work of Institutional Ethnography; Notes; GLOSSARY; REFERENCE LIST; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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