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The Methodology/Theory Interface: Ethnography and the Microfoundations of Institutions

Organization Theory, 2020
I explore the interrelations between methodology and theory by examining how specific research strategies afford specific lines of theorizing. My case study is recent studies in which scholars applied ethnography to examine the microfoundations of ...
Tammar B. Zilber
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Office Setting as Organizational Structure in “Bartleby the Scrivener”

SAGE Open, 2017
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.
Lori Duin Kelly
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Romanian Roma: An Institutional Ethnography of Labour Market Exclusion

Social Inclusion, 2016
Roma individuals are struggling to access the formal labour market in Romania. Previous research occupied with this issue has traditionally been dominated by quantitative studies of socio-economic indicators that cling to the characteristics of the ...
Janne Paulsen Breimo, Loreni Elena Baciu
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One child, one appointment: how institutional discourses organize the work of parents and nurses in the provision of childhood vaccination for First Nations children

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022
To effectively support childhood vaccine programs for First Nations Peoples, Canada’s largest population of Indigenous Peoples, it is essential to understand the context, processes, and structures organizing vaccine access and uptake.
Shannon E MacDonald, Bonny Graham, Jillian Paragg, Caroline Foster-Boucher, Nicola Waters, Melissa Shea-Budgell, Deborah McNeil, Diane Kunyk, Nancy Bedingfield, Eve Dubé, Lisa Kenzie, Lawrence W. Svenson, Randy Littlechild, Gregg Nelson   +13 more
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Becoming an Insider: Positionality, Ethics, and Methods in a Turn to Institutional Ethnography in China

International Journal of Qualitative Methods
This paper examines how an unplanned transformation from classical ethnography to institutional ethnography during my long-term research in a rapidly developing village in China reshaped my positionality, ethics, and methods.
Shize Zhang
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Institutional ethnography: A sociology for librarianship

Library and Information Research, 2018
Canadian sociologist Dorothy Smith’s institutional ethnography (IE) is an ontology of the social that conceptualises ‘life as usual’ as the ongoing coordination of people’s actions across diverse sites. Popular in the health sciences and human service professions as a research strategy for understanding and explicating problematics of everyday life, it
Dalmer, Nicole K, Stooke, Roz, McKenzie, Pamela J.   +2 more
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Revised paper ASIM-D-21-00055R1: “Consulting properly rather than acting”: advocating for real patient involvement in summative OSCEs

Advances in Simulation, 2022
Background In this “Advancing simulation practice” article, we offer an expose of the involvement of real patients in Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), inviting educators who traditionally involve solely SPs in their summative OSCEs to ...
Grainne P. Kearney, Jennifer L. Johnston, Nigel D. Hart, Kathy M. Cullen, Gerard J. Gormley   +4 more
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Livet och döden i journalerna

Kulturella Perspektiv, 2019
In this article, the life and death of the authors’ childhood friend Marcus is focused. He died while he was treated for auditory hallucinations in a psychiatry ward. The aim of the article is to analyse the narrative of the psychiatric institution about
Kim Silow Kallenberg
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Constructing the “Competent” Pupil: Optimizing Human Futures Through Testing?

Social Inclusion, 2021
In the last decade, the German transition system has witnessed the large‐scale introduction of so‐called “analysis of potentials” (Potenzialanalysen) in secondary compulsory schooling.
Stephan Dahmen
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In-between discourses

Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2016
During the last decades, early intervention has become a major concern across political parties in Norway. In line with the discourse of early intervention, kindergartens are perceived as important arenas for identifying children at risk and initiating ...
Ann Christin E. Nilsen
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