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

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 c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2014
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 12 figures
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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