Comparer des méthodes

	Ethnographie institutionnelle interprétative	Éthnographie institutionnelle critique
Domaine	Qualitatif	Qualitatif
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1987 (IE); interpretive variant consolidated 1990s–2000s	1987 (IE foundational); critical applications prominent 1990s–2000s
Auteur d'origine	Dorothy E. Smith (institutional ethnography); interpretive elaboration by Campbell, Gregor, and others	Dorothy E. Smith (institutional ethnography); critical variant developed through feminist and critical scholars
Type	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research design
Source fondatrice	Smith, D. E. (1987). The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology. Northeastern University Press. ISBN: 978-1555530167	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105010
Alias	interpretive IE, hermeneutic institutional ethnography, meaning-centered institutional ethnography, IIE	Critical IE, critical-IE, institutional ethnography with critical orientation, CIE
Apparentées	5	6
Résumé	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.	Critical institutional ethnography (CIE) combines Dorothy Smith's institutional ethnography with an explicit critical theory lens to investigate how ruling relations, texts, and institutional discourses reproduce inequality and power asymmetries. Starting from the lived experiences of people positioned within or subordinated by institutions, CIE traces how abstract institutional processes coordinate everyday life and subjects those processes to normative critique aimed at social transformation.