| Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People Contributor(s): Smith, Dorothy E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0759105022 ISBN-13: 9780759105027 Publisher: Altamira Press OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Methodology |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 2005001013 |
| Series: Gender Lens |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.04" W x 9.06" (0.95 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the detached viewpoint of the researcher, this is a method of inquiry for people, incorporating the expert's research and language into everyday experience to examine social relations and institutions. The book begins by examining the foundations of institutional ethnography in women's movements, differentiating it from other related sociologies; the second part offers an ontology of the social; and the third illustrates this ontology through an array of institutional ethnography examples. This will be a foundational text for classes in sociology, ethnography, and women's studies. |