Recommended Reading
Marjorie DeVault 2021, Elements of an Expansive Institutional Ethnography: A Conceptual History of Its North American Origins
Marjory DeVault’s marvellous chapter in Palgrave’s 2021 Handbook of IE. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-54222-1_2
Dorothy E Smith: A rough sketch for a talk given to sociologists at the University of Victoria, showing how IE differs
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Paul Luken and Suzanne Vaughan’s An institutional ethnography approach to housing studies
The authors discuss how they used institutional ethnography to study the social institution of housing in the United States in the twentieth century, and note that most institutional ethnographies to date have been in the areas of education, health care, and social services, noting that Susan Turner (1995; 2002) is the only other research to use this approach to study housing-related social relations.
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Dorothy Smith’s Texts and the Ontology of Organizations and Institutions
Smith examines the problem of how institutions and the phenomena called formal or large-scale organization exist—the problem of the ontology of organizations and institutions. It explicates how IE expands the scope of ethnographic method beyond the limits of observation, treating texts as they enter into people’s local practices and coordinate people’s activities.
Dorothy E. Smith (2001) Texts and the ontology of organizations and institutions, Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies, 7:2, 159-198, DOI: 10.1080/10245280108523557
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Dorothy Smith’s Telling the Truth after Postmodernism
The concerns of this paper come from an attempt to develop sociological inquiry for people. It is a project that must rely on the possibility of “telling the truth. ”
Dorothy E. Smith* | Ontario lnstitute for Studies in Education
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Liza McCoy, Producing what the deans know, Human Studies; Dordrecht Vol. 21, Iss. 4, (Oct 1998): 395-418. DOI:10.1023/A:1005433531551
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Eric Mykhalovskiy and Liza McCoy, Troubling ruling discourses of health: Using institutional ethnography in community-based research, March 2002, Critical Public Health 12 (1
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