Introduction to the Special Issue

New Scholarship in Institutional Ethnography

Bibliographic Data

ID11343151
AuthorsPaul C Luken (corresponding author), Suzanne Vaughan
Year2015
Volume42
Issue2
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0191-5096 • E-ISSN: 0191-5096
PublisherWMU Department of Occupational Therapy (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15453/0191-5096.3900
OpenAlexW2584676064
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited7

Twelve years ago the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare (JSSW) published a special issue devoted to institutional ethnography, “Institutional Ethnography: Theory and Practice” (Winfield, 2003). This alternative sociology, founded by Dorothy E. Smith, begins from the standpoint of the experiences of particular, active subjects and sets out to discover and describe the social relations shaping those experiences (Smith, 1987, 2005, 2006). JSSW, dedicated to publishing new, cutting-edge theoretical and methodological articles, was the first academic journal to devote a special issue to this new mode of inquiry used to investigate the social world. Over the ensuing years, the number of international practitioners of institutional ethnography has increased across a diverse array of disciplines, opening up new areas of investigation and methodological strategies, and in the process increasing our knowledge of “ruling relations,” that “expansive, historically specific apparatus of management and control that arose with the development of corporate capitalism and supports it operation” (DeVault, 2006, p. 295)

Capitalism · Epistemology · Ethnography · Expansive · Political science · Politics · Publishing · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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