Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Διαχρονική Θεσμική Εθνογραφία	Θεσμική Εθνογραφία
Πεδίο	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1987 (IE foundation); longitudinal applications from 1990s onward	1970s–1987 (developed through the 1970s–80s; consolidated in Smith 1987, 2005)
Δημιουργός	Dorothy E. Smith (institutional ethnography); longitudinal extension by subsequent IE practitioners	Dorothy E. Smith
Τύπος	Qualitative longitudinal research design	Qualitative research method
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759106598	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105010
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	longitudinal IE, time-extended institutional ethnography, longitudinal IE study, IE longitudinal design	IE, sociology for people, institutional ethnographic inquiry, Smith's institutional ethnography
Συναφείς	6	6
Σύνοψη	Longitudinal Institutional Ethnography (longitudinal IE) combines Dorothy Smith's sociology of standpoint — institutional ethnography — with repeated data collection over time to trace how institutional texts, relations, and ruling practices shape people's everyday lives across a temporal span. By revisiting the same participants, settings, or documents at multiple time points, it reveals how institutional coordination evolves, accumulates, or intensifies over weeks, months, or years.	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.