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	Etnografia Istituzionale Critica	Studio di caso critico
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1987 (IE foundational); critical applications prominent 1990s–2000s	1980s–2006 (formalized)
Ideatore	Dorothy E. Smith (institutional ethnography); critical variant developed through feminist and critical scholars	Bent Flyvbjerg (formalized); Robert K. Yin (case study typology)
Tipo	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research design
Fonte seminale	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105010	Flyvbjerg, B. (2006). Five misunderstandings about case-study research. Qualitative Inquiry, 12(2), 219–245.
Alias	Critical IE, critical-IE, institutional ethnography with critical orientation, CIE	critical case, strategic case study, critical-instance case study, paradigmatic case study
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	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.	A critical case study is a case study design in which the researcher deliberately selects a case that is strategically important for testing, confirming, challenging, or extending an existing proposition, theory, or policy claim. Rather than choosing a typical or representative case, the researcher argues that if the finding holds here — in this most-likely, least-likely, or paradigmatic instance — it can reasonably be expected to hold more broadly. This purposive logic transforms a single case into a powerful analytical tool.