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	Etnografia istituzionale basata sul campo	Etnografia
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1987 (IE foundations); field-based variant prominent from 1990s onward	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
Ideatore	Dorothy E. Smith	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
Tipo	Qualitative research design	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
Fonte seminale	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105713	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
Alias	field IE, field-based IE, institutional ethnography fieldwork, on-site institutional ethnography	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
Correlati	6	5
Sintesi	Field-based institutional ethnography (field IE) is a qualitative approach that combines Dorothy Smith's institutional ethnography with sustained, immersive on-site fieldwork. Researchers enter real institutional settings — hospitals, schools, social service offices, prisons — to observe how everyday work practices are coordinated and governed by texts, policies, and ruling relations operating beyond the local site.	Ethnography is a qualitative research tradition in which a researcher immerses themselves in a social group or community over an extended period — typically three to six months or longer — to study its culture, values, and behaviours in their natural setting. Originating in social and cultural anthropology, and consolidated as a rigorous method by Bronisław Malinowski in the early twentieth century, ethnography produces rich, contextualised accounts of how people live, work, and make meaning together.