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Participatory Institutional Ethnography

Participatory Institutional Ethnography (PIE) combines Dorothy Smith's institutional ethnography with participatory research principles, positioning community members or service users as co-researchers who investigate how institutional relations, ruling texts, and organizational practices shape and often constrain their everyday lives. The approach aims both to produce knowledge about institutional coordination and to generate actionable change through collaborative inquiry.

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Participatory Institutional Ethnography
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / qualitative
  • Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. · ISBN 978-0759105010
  • Rankin, J., & Campbell, M. (2006). Managing to Nurse: Inside Canada's Health Care Reform. University of Toronto Press. · ISBN 978-0802039743
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