A form of critical ethnography introduced to the social sciences in the late 1990s, institutional ethnography uncovers how things happen within institutional si

Outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social organization. This book is suitable for classes in s

In this edited collection, institutional ethnographers draw on their field research experiences to address different aspects of institutional ethnographic pract

Developed in response to the theoretically driven mainstream sociology, institutional ethnography starts from people’s everyday experiences, and works from th

This is a book about a distinctive methodological approach inspired by one of Canada's most respected scholars, Dorothy Smith. Institutional ethnography aims to