Linganisha mbinu

	Utafiti wa Kiutamaduni wa Kiutendaji wa Kiutamaduni	Etnografia ya Kitaasisi
Nyanja	Mbinu za Kimaelezo	Mbinu za Kimaelezo
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Mwaka wa asili	1987 (IE); interpretive variant consolidated 1990s–2000s	1970s–1987 (developed through the 1970s–80s; consolidated in Smith 1987, 2005)
Mwanzilishi	Dorothy E. Smith (institutional ethnography); interpretive elaboration by Campbell, Gregor, and others	Dorothy E. Smith
Aina	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research method
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	IE, sociology for people, institutional ethnographic inquiry, Smith's institutional ethnography
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.	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.