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	Etnografia Istituzionale Multi-Caso	Etnografia Istituzionale
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1987 (IE foundation); multi-case application developed through 1990s–2000s	1970s–1987 (developed through the 1970s–80s; consolidated in Smith 1987, 2005)
Ideatore	Dorothy E. Smith (institutional ethnography); multi-site adaptation by IE practitioners	Dorothy E. Smith
Tipo	Qualitative multi-site research design	Qualitative research method
Fonte seminale	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105690	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105010
Alias	multi-site institutional ethnography, comparative institutional ethnography, multi-case IE, multiple-site IE	IE, sociology for people, institutional ethnographic inquiry, Smith's institutional ethnography
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	Multiple case-based institutional ethnography combines Dorothy E. Smith's institutional ethnography with a multi-site case structure, enabling researchers to trace how the same ruling relations, texts, and institutional processes operate across two or more distinct organizational or community settings. By holding the analytical framework constant while varying the site, this design reveals both the trans-local reach of ruling apparatus and the locally specific ways people navigate institutional coordination.	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.