Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Θεσμική Εθνογραφία Βάσει Πεδίου	Θεσμική Εθνογραφία
Πεδίο	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1987 (IE foundations); field-based variant prominent from 1990s onward	1970s–1987 (developed through the 1970s–80s; consolidated in Smith 1987, 2005)
Δημιουργός	Dorothy E. Smith	Dorothy E. Smith
Τύπος	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research method
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105713	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105010
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	field IE, field-based IE, institutional ethnography fieldwork, on-site institutional ethnography	IE, sociology for people, institutional ethnographic inquiry, Smith's institutional ethnography
Συναφείς	6	6
Σύνοψη	Field-based institutional ethnography (field IE) is a qualitative approach that combines Dorothy Smith's institutional ethnography with sustained, immersive on-site fieldwork. Researchers enter real institutional settings — hospitals, schools, social service offices, prisons — to observe how everyday work practices are coordinated and governed by texts, policies, and ruling relations operating beyond the local site.	Institutional Ethnography (IE) is a qualitative research method developed by Canadian sociologist Dorothy E. Smith that investigates how people's everyday lives are shaped and coordinated by institutional texts, rules, and relations of power. Starting from the lived experience of individuals in a particular standpoint, IE traces the social organization that governs their work and troubles — revealing how macro-level institutions operate through the micro-level activities of real people.