Linganisha mbinu

	Utafiti wa Kiutamaduni wa Kiutendaji wa Kiutamaduni	Utafiti wa Kina wa Kitaasisi wa Kina
Nyanja	Mbinu za Kimaelezo	Mbinu za Kimaelezo
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Mwaka wa asili	1987 (IE); interpretive variant consolidated 1990s–2000s	1987 (IE foundational); critical applications prominent 1990s–2000s
Mwanzilishi	Dorothy E. Smith (institutional ethnography); interpretive elaboration by Campbell, Gregor, and others	Dorothy E. Smith (institutional ethnography); critical variant developed through feminist and critical scholars
Aina	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research design
Chanzo asilia	Smith, D. E. (1987). The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology. Northeastern University Press. ISBN: 978-1555530167	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105010
Majina mbadala	interpretive IE, hermeneutic institutional ethnography, meaning-centered institutional ethnography, IIE	Critical IE, critical-IE, institutional ethnography with critical orientation, CIE
Zinazohusiana	5	6
Muhtasari	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.	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.