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	Fältbaserad institutionell etnografi	Kritisk institutionell etnografi
Ämnesområde	Kvalitativa metoder	Kvalitativa metoder
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	1987 (IE foundations); field-based variant prominent from 1990s onward	1987 (IE foundational); critical applications prominent 1990s–2000s
Upphovsperson	Dorothy E. Smith	Dorothy E. Smith (institutional ethnography); critical variant developed through feminist and critical scholars
Typ	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research design
Ursprungskälla	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105713	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105010
Alias	field IE, field-based IE, institutional ethnography fieldwork, on-site institutional ethnography	Critical IE, critical-IE, institutional ethnography with critical orientation, CIE
Närliggande	6	6
Sammanfattning	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.	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.