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Book SynopsisThis text is firmly grounded in critical social analysis.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Why Another "Methods" Text? About the Authors Positioning the Text in Relation to its Users and Uses How the Book is Organized Acknowledgements Chapter One: Finding a Place to Begin Practices of Knowing, Forms of Literacy The Located Knower: A Feminist Discovery Challenging Authoritative Ways of Knowing Learning to See "Social Organization" in a Health Care Setting Embodied Knowing in a Text-mediated World Chapter Two: Theory "in" Everyday Life Social Organization and Social Relations Texts and the Relations of Ruling Activating Texts as Ruling Relations Objectified Knowledge and Ruling Experience, Discourse, and Social Relations Chapter Three: Beginning an Institutional Ethnography Identifying the Problematic of the Research The Conceptual Frame for a Research Project Writing an Account of the Methodology Chapter Four: Collecting Data for an Institutional Ethnography Explicating Ruling Relations Positioning Oneself as a Researcher: Research Relations More about Data Collection and Interpersonal Relations with Informants Data Collection: How to "Look" and "Listen" Field Methods in Institutional Ethnography About Observations About Interviews About Texts as Data Chapter Five: Analyzing Data in Institutional Ethnography Moving from Data to Data Analysis: What Path to Follow? Different Ethnographies, Different Analytic Strategies Making Sense of Discursively-Organized Settings Writing Analysis in Institutional Ethnography Interpretation and Analysis Chapter Six: Putting Institutional Ethnography into Practice Studies by Institutional Ethnographers with Research Preparation in Master's Programs Practising a Sociology for People Subverting Institutionalization References Notes Index
