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

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

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

A comprehensive guide to the alternative sociology originating in the work of Dorothy E. Smith, this Handbook not only explores the basic, founding principles o