Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies

Published by University of Toronto Press 2014

Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies

Edited by: Dorothy E. Smith and Susan Marie Turner

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442667082

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About this book

Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies presents a selection of essays highlighting the ethnographic investigation of how texts coordinate and organize people’s activities across space and time.

Author / Editor information

Smith Dorothy E. :

Dorothy E. Smith is an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria.
Turner Susan Marie :

Susan Marie Turner is an associate scholar with the Centre for Women’s Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Reviews

Órla Meadhbh:

‘Smith’s conceptualization of texts and their powerful role in contemporary society is a vital contribution for all sociologists, not just institutional ethnographers.’

Mary Hamilton, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University:
“Incorporating Texts in Institutional Ethnographies presents a feast of sound, scholarly material that offers practical examples of the many creative and productive ways in which institutional ethnography may be applied.”

Nancy Naples, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut:
“This collection will transform how scholars think about, utilize, and analyze texts in ethnographic research and beyond. I can honestly say that I have gained more insight about the ‘power’ of texts to organize everyday life from this book than from anything else that takes up the institutional ethnographic framework.”

Marjorie DeVault, Department of Sociology, Syracuse University:
“Extending the writings of Smith and others who have outlined the approach, Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies explicates the key concepts and ideas that researchers have developed over twenty or thirty years of institutional ethnography.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
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Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Incorporating Texts Into Institutional Ethnographies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Introduction Dorothy E. Smith and Susan Marie Turner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Part 1 Institutional Circuits
1. Policing The Gay Community: An Inquiry Into Textually-Mediated Social Relations George W. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Regulating The Alternative : Certifying Organic Farming On Vancouver Island, British Columbia Katherine Wagner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3. Negotiating Un Policy: Activating Texts In Policy Deliberations Lauren E. Eastwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Part 2 Diverse Textual Technologies
4. Producing “What The Deans Know”: Cost Accounting And The Restructuring Of Post-Secondary Education Liza Mccoy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
5. Text In Performance: The Making Of A Haydn Concerto Leanne D. Warren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
6. “Three In A Bed”: Nurses And Technologies Of Bed Utilization In A Hospital Janet Rankin and Marie Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Part 3 Experiential Ethnography
7. Doing Child Protection Work Gerald De Montigny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Part 4 Text–Reader Conversations
8. Reading Practices In Decision Processes Susan Marie Turner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
9. Discourse As Social Relations: Sociological Theory And The Dialogic Of Sociology Dorothy E. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Part 5 Extended Institutional Ethnography
10. Standardizing Child-Rearing Through Housing Paul C. Luken and Suzanne Vaughan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Afterword Dorothy E. Smith and Susan Marie Turner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 344
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
- Other: 12 figures

eBook

Published: October 8, 2018
ISBN: 9781442667082