Linganisha mbinu

	Utafiti wa Kiutamaduni wa Taasisi unaoendelea kwa Muda Mrefu	Etnografia ya Kitaasisi
Nyanja	Mbinu za Kimaelezo	Mbinu za Kimaelezo
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Mwaka wa asili	1987 (IE foundation); longitudinal applications from 1990s onward	1970s–1987 (developed through the 1970s–80s; consolidated in Smith 1987, 2005)
Mwanzilishi	Dorothy E. Smith (institutional ethnography); longitudinal extension by subsequent IE practitioners	Dorothy E. Smith
Aina	Qualitative longitudinal research design	Qualitative research method
Chanzo asilia	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759106598	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105010
Majina mbadala	longitudinal IE, time-extended institutional ethnography, longitudinal IE study, IE longitudinal design	IE, sociology for people, institutional ethnographic inquiry, Smith's institutional ethnography
Zinazohusiana	6	6
Muhtasari	Longitudinal Institutional Ethnography (longitudinal IE) combines Dorothy Smith's sociology of standpoint — institutional ethnography — with repeated data collection over time to trace how institutional texts, relations, and ruling practices shape people's everyday lives across a temporal span. By revisiting the same participants, settings, or documents at multiple time points, it reveals how institutional coordination evolves, accumulates, or intensifies over weeks, months, or years.	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.