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Review: Institutional Ethnography

Wed, 2006-09-20 12:43 — Scott Neigh
Dorothy Smith is perhaps Canada's foremost feminist sociologist. Her greatest contribution to the discipline is the elaboration of a sociology -- not a methodology, but an actual alternative sociology -- called institutional ethnography (IE). This book is her most recent, most complete theoretical discussion (albeit with plenty of concrete examples from actual IE studies over the years) of the bases and major features of IE.

I first became aware of Smith's work about four years ago when I...

(Continued here on A Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land.)

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