Institutional Ethnography A Sociology for

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.

Dorothy E. Smith is professor emerita in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and adjunct professor, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria

Series Editors' Foreword

ix

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction

1

(6)

PART ONE Making a Sociology for People

Women's Standpoint: Embodied Knowing versus the Ruling Relations

7

(20)

Women's Standpoint and the Ruling Relations

9

(4)

The Historical Trajectory of Gender and the Ruling Relations

13

(14)

Knowing the Social: An Alternative Design

27

(22)

Reorganizing the Social Relations of Objectivity

28

(1)

What Is Institutional Ethnography? Some Contrasts

29

(9)

Experience and the Ethnographic Problematic

38

(5)

Conclusion

43

(6)

PART TWO An Ontology of the Social

Designing an Ontology for Institutional Ethnography

49

(26)

An Ontology of the Social

51

(17)

Institutions, Language, and Texts

68

(1)

Conclusion

69

(6)

Language as Coordinating Subjectivities

75

(26)

Reconceptualizing Language as Social

76

(10)

Experiential and Text-Based Territories

86

(8)

Conclusion

94

(7)

PART THREE Making Institutions Ethnographically Accessible

Texts, Text--Reader Conversations, and Institutional Discourse

101

(22)

The Text--Reader Conversation

104

(7)

The Text--Reader Conversations of Institutional Discourse

111

(7)

Texts as Institutional Coordinators

118

(1)

Conclusion

119

(4)

Experience as Dialogue and Data

123

(22)

Experience as Dialogue: The Problem

124

(3)

An Alternative Understanding of Experience as Dialogue

127

(1)

Experience, Language, and Social Organization

128

(7)

The Data Dialogues

135

(7)

Conclusion

142

(3)

Work Knowledges

145

(20)

Work Knowledge of University Grades and Grading: A Mini-ethnography

145

(5)

Work Knowledge as the Institutional Ethnographer's Data

150

(1)

Work Knowledge

151

(4)

The Problem of Institutional Capture

155

(2)

Assembling and Mapping Work Knowledges

157

(4)

Conclusion

161

(4)

Texts and Institutions

165

(18)

How Texts Coordinate

170

(10)

Conclusion

180

(3)

Power, Language, and Institutions

183

(22)

Making Institutional Realities

187

(4)

Regulatory Frames

191

(8)

Conclusion

199

(6)

PART FOUR Conclusion

Where We've Got To and Where We Can Go

205

(18)

Where We've Got To

205

(7)

Expansion

212

(7)

The Collective Work of Institutional Ethnography

219

(4)

Glossary

223

(8)

Reference List

231

(14)

Index

245

(12)

About the Author

257

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