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	Etnografia Istituzionale Comparativa	Etnografia Istituzionale
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1987 (IE origin); comparative applications developed 1990s–2000s	1970s–1987 (developed through the 1970s–80s; consolidated in Smith 1987, 2005)
Ideatore	Dorothy E. Smith (IE foundation); comparative extension by subsequent IE scholars	Dorothy E. Smith
Tipo	Qualitative multi-site institutional design	Qualitative research method
Fonte seminale	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105508	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105010
Alias	CIE, comparative IE, multi-site institutional ethnography, cross-institutional ethnography	IE, sociology for people, institutional ethnographic inquiry, Smith's institutional ethnography
Correlati	5	6
Sintesi	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.	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.