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Comparative Institutional Ethnography

Comparative Institutional Ethnography (CIE) extends Dorothy Smith's institutional ethnography to two or more institutional settings, revealing how texts, ruling relations, and coordinated work practices operate across different organizational contexts. By holding the standpoint of workers or clients constant while varying the institutional site, CIE exposes both the shared ideological mechanisms and the local divergences that shape everyday experience within institutions such as hospitals, schools, welfare agencies, or courts.

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Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. · ISBN 978-0759105508
DeVault, M. L., & McCoy, L. (2006). Institutional ethnography: Using interviews to investigate ruling relations. In D. E. Smith (Ed.), Institutional Ethnography as Practice (pp. 15–44). Rowman & Littlefield. · URL

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