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Mapping social relations : a primer in doing institutional ethnography / Marie Campbell and Frances Gregor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, Marie L. (Marie Louise), 1936-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human services--Research--Methodology.
- Human services.
- Social sciences--Research--Methodology.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 137 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- This is a book about a distinctive methodological approach inspired by Dorothy Smith_one of Canada's most respected scholars. Institutional ethnography aims to answer questions about how everyday life is organized. What is conventionally understood as 'the relationship of micro to macro processes' is conceptualized and explored in terms of ruling relations. The authors suggest that institutional ethnographers must adopt a particular research stance, one that recognizes that people's own knowledge and ways of knowing are crucial elements of social action and thus of social analysis.
- Contents:
- Practices of Knowing, Forms of Literacy 11
- The Located Knower: A Feminist Discovery 13
- Challenging Authoritative Ways of Knowing 16
- Learning to See "Social Organization" in a Health Care Setting 18
- Embodied Knowing in a Text-Mediated World 23
- Chapter 2 Theory "in" Everyday Life 27
- Social Organization and Social Relations 27
- Texts and the Relations of Ruling 31
- Activating Texts as Ruling Relations 33
- Objectified Knowledge and Ruling 36
- Experience, Discourse, and Social Relations 40
- Chapter 3 Beginning an Institutional Ethnography 45
- Identifying the Problematic of the Research 46
- The Conceptual Frame for a Research Project 50
- Writing an Account of the Methodology 54
- Chapter 4 Collecting Data for an Institutional Ethnography 59
- Explicating Ruling Relations 59
- Positioning Oneself as a Researcher: Research Relations 61
- More about Data Collection and Interpersonal Relations with Informants 66
- Data Collection: How to "Look" and "Listen" 69
- Field Methods in Institutional Ethnography 71
- About Observations 72
- About Interviews 77
- About Texts as Data 79
- Chapter 5 Analyzing Data in Institutional Ethnography 83
- Moving from Data to Data Analysis: What Path to Follow? 84
- Different Ethnographies, Different Analytic Strategies 86
- Making Sense of Discursively-Organized Settings 90
- Writing Analysis in Institutional Ethnography 91
- Interpretation and Analysis 98
- Chapter 6 Putting Institutional Ethnography into Practice 103
- Studies by Institutional Ethnographers with Research Preparation in Master's Programs 104
- Sonya Jakubec and her Study of Mental Health Care in West Africa 104
- Rena Miller and her "Insider's" Study of Palliative Care 107
- Karen Jung and her Study of a University Disability Policy 111
- Practising a Sociology for People 113
- Roxana Ng's Study of a Job Placement Agency for Immigrant Women 114
- A Collaborative Study: Project Inter-Seed 117
- Gary Kinsman's Writing from inside Political Activism 120
- Subverting Institutionalization 124.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Garamond Press, 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-132) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0759107521
- 0759107513
- OCLC:
- 57185320
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