Interpretive Institutional Ethnography
Interpretive institutional ethnography (IIE) is a qualitative research design that combines Dorothy Smith's institutional ethnography — which maps how institutional texts and social relations coordinate everyday life — with an explicitly interpretive, meaning-centered stance. Rather than stopping at describing ruling relations, the researcher asks what those relations mean to people embedded in them and how participants actively interpret institutional demands and texts in their lived experience.
Source record
Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.
- Smith, D. E. (1987). The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology. Northeastern University Press. · ISBN 978-1555530167
- Campbell, M., & Gregor, F. (2002). Mapping Social Relations: A Primer in Doing Institutional Ethnography. Garamond Press. · URL
Curated claims
Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.
This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.
Related methods
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