scholarly journals Institutional ethnography: a sociology of discovery—in conversation with Dorothy Smith

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grainne P. Kearney ◽  
Michael K. Corman ◽  
Gerard J. Gormley ◽  
Nigel D. Hart ◽  
Jennifer L. Johnston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Ethnography ◽  
Dorothy Smith

scholarly journals Information for the option of planned home birth: women's right to choose

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 665-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heloisa Ferreira Lessa ◽  
Maria Antonieta Rubio Tyrrell ◽  
Valdecyr Herdy Alves ◽  
Diego Pereira Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Institutional Ethnography ◽  
Home Birth ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Category Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dorothy Smith ◽  
Planned Home Birth ◽  
Source Of Information

This article is part of an investigation which used the institutional ethnography of Dorothy Smith, aiming to describe women's process of choice in planned home birth. It used interviews held with 17 women who gave birth at home between 2008 and 2010 in Rio de Janeiro. We selected one category: information - a step for the option for planned home birth. The category was constructed based on six subcategories: knowing persons who had a home birth; knowing persons with negative experiences; the Internet as a source of information; books as a source of information, information from health professionals; and, the exchanging of information between women. The information acts as a network of knowledge, reports and experiences in their symbolic dimensions, favoring the raising of consciousness and the social organization of support. These knowledges and practices are a foundation for a social understanding and the women's discourse in the option for planned home birth.

The Mainstreaming of Postmodernism: A Status Report on the "New" Scholarship in CanadaPARACHUTE: ART CONTEMPORAINI CONTEMPORARY ART.STRUGGLES WITH THE IMAGE. Philip Monk. Toronto: YYZ Books, 1989.A POETICS OF POSTMODERNISM: HISTORY, THEORY AND FICTION. Linda Hutcheon. London and New York: Routledge, 1988.THE CANADIAN POSTMODERN: A STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH-CANADIAN FICTION. Linda Hutcheon. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1988.FUTURE INDICATIVE: LITERARY THEORY AND CANADIAN LITERATURE. Ed. John Moss. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1987.GYNOCRITICS: FEMINIST APPROACHES TO WRITING BY CANADIAN AND QUEBECOISE WOMEN. Ed. Barbara Godard. Toronto: ECW Press, 1987.A MAZING SPACE: WRITING CANADIAN WOMEN WRITING. Ed. Shirley Neuman and Smaro Kamboureli. Edmonton: Longspoon and NeWest, 1986.FEMINIST RESEARCH: PROSPECT AND RETROSPECT. Ed. Peta Tancred-Sheriff. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1988.THE EVERYDAY WORLD AS PROBLEMATIC: A FEMINIST SOCIOLOGY. Dorothy Smith. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987.THE POSTMODERN SCENE: EXCREMENTAL CULTURE AND HYPER-AESTHETICS. Arthur Kroker and David Cook. Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1985.CANADIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THEORY.BODY INVADERS: PANIC SEX IN AMERICA. Ed. Arthur Kroker and Mari-louise Kroker. Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1987.

1989 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-173
Author(s):  
Gaile McGregor
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New World ◽  
Status Report ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Feminist Sociology ◽  
Dorothy Smith ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Research Prospect ◽  
English Canadian

An institutional ethnography of prevention and treatment services for substance use disorders in the Dominican Republic

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 691-703
Author(s):  
Mark Padilla ◽  
José Félix Colón-Burgos ◽  
Caroline Mary Parker ◽  
Nelson Varas-Díaz ◽  
Armando Matiz-Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Institutional Ethnography ◽  
Treatment Services ◽  
Prevention And Treatment

The Global Ruling of Local Crisis Intervention: An Institutional Ethnography of Anti-Violence Work in Kyrgyzstan

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122098593
Author(s):  
Elena Kim
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Intervention ◽  
Institutional Ethnography ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Women Clients ◽  
International Treaty ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Standards Of Practice

This article analyzes contradictory practices carried out in Kyrgyzstani crisis centers for victims of gender violence resulting in women-clients failing to obtain the protection they seek. These problematic dynamics are shaped by a global apparatus on women’s human rights protection and international standards of practice. Crisis center professionals perform the final activation of this ruling apparatus through textual work driven not by the women’s needs but by the goal of bringing local actions into accord with the “legal framework” organized and expressed by the national anti-violence law and the government’s need to report on it to international treaty bodies.

Building Scholarship Capacity and Transforming Nurse Educators' Practice through Institutional Ethnography

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Malinsky ◽  
Ruth DuBois ◽  
Diane Jacquest
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Nurse Educators ◽  
Institutional Ethnography ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
Routine Work ◽  
Schools Of Nursing ◽  
Quality Of Nursing

Institutional ethnography can be viewed as a method of inquiry for nurse educators to build scholarship capacity and advance the quality of nursing practice. Within a framework of the Boyer (1990) model and the domains of academic scholarship in nursing described by the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (2006), we discuss how a team of nurse educators participated as co-researchers in an institutional ethnographic study to examine the routine work of evaluating nursing students and discovered a contradiction between what was actually happening and what we value as nurse educators. The discovery, teaching, application, and integration dimensions of scholarship are examined for links to our emerging insights from the research and ramifications for our teaching practices. The article illuminates the expertise that developed and the transformations that happened as results of a collaborative institutional ethnography.

scholarly journals Office Setting as Organizational Structure in “Bartleby the Scrivener”

SAGE Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824401769043
Author(s):  
Lori Duin Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Institutional Ethnography ◽  
Interpersonal Dynamics ◽  
Office Setting ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bartleby The Scrivener ◽  
A Site

This article uses a methodology from the social sciences known as institutional ethnography to analyze the office setting in Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” as a site of social organization. This approach contributes to an understanding of how that office came to adopt specific structures as crucial to its functioning and how, as a consequence of those structures, individuals’ roles within the organization’s hierarchies became constituted. As fieldwork occurs inside of organizations, institutional ethnography also provides a tool for identifying and evaluating linguistic markers for an individual’s placement within a larger organizational structure. This approach to the story seems particularly useful for understanding the interpersonal dynamics at the heart of “Bartleby.” At the same time, it provides a method for identifying the larger institutional process at work in Melville’s story, one that contributes to the reproduction of a system of social relations in the workplace that requires subordination and compliance to insure its success.

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