Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies / / ed. by Dorothy E. Smith, Susan Marie Turner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Campbell, Marie,; Eastwood, Lauren E.,; Luken, Paul C.,; Mccoy, Liza,; Montigny, Gerald De,; Rankin, Janet,; Smith, Dorothy E.,; Smith, George W.,; Turner, Susan Marie,; Vaughan, Suzanne,; Wagner, Katherine,; Warren, Leanne D.,
• HerausgeberIn: Smith, Dorothy E.,; Turner, Susan Marie,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 12 figures

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Exhibits -- Permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Incorporating Texts Into Institutional Ethnographies -- Introduction -- Part 1 Institutional Circuits -- 1. Policing The Gay Community: An Inquiry Into Textually-Mediated Social Relations -- 2. Regulating The Alternative : Certifying Organic Farming On Vancouver Island, British Columbia -- 3. Negotiating Un Policy: Activating Texts In Policy Deliberations -- Part 2 Diverse Textual Technologies -- 4. Producing “What The Deans Know”: Cost Accounting And The Restructuring Of Post-Secondary Education -- 5. Text In Performance: The Making Of A Haydn Concerto -- 6. “Three In A Bed”: Nurses And Technologies Of Bed Utilization In A Hospital -- Part 3 Experiential Ethnography -- 7. Doing Child Protection Work -- Part 4 Text–Reader Conversations -- 8. Reading Practices In Decision Processes -- 9. Discourse As Social Relations: Sociological Theory And The Dialogic Of Sociology -- Part 5 Extended Institutional Ethnography -- 10. Standardizing Child-Rearing Through Housing -- Afterword -- References -- Contributors