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	Etnografia Istituzionale Interpretativa	Etnografia
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1987 (IE); interpretive variant consolidated 1990s–2000s	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
Ideatore	Dorothy E. Smith (institutional ethnography); interpretive elaboration by Campbell, Gregor, and others	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
Tipo	Qualitative research design	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
Fonte seminale	Smith, D. E. (1987). The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology. Northeastern University Press. ISBN: 978-1555530167	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
Alias	interpretive IE, hermeneutic institutional ethnography, meaning-centered institutional ethnography, IIE	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
Correlati	5	5
Sintesi	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.	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.