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	ชาติพันธุ์วรรณนาเชิงสถาบันกับการกระตุ้นด้วยภาพ	ชาติพันธุ์วรรณนาเชิงสถาบัน
สาขาวิชา	เชิงคุณภาพ	เชิงคุณภาพ
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	2000s–2010s (integration period; IE roots ~1987, photo elicitation ~1967)	1970s–1987 (developed through the 1970s–80s; consolidated in Smith 1987, 2005)
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Dorothy E. Smith (IE); Douglas Harper (photo elicitation); integration developed by feminist and critical ethnographers in the 2000s–2010s	Dorothy E. Smith
ประเภท	Qualitative multimodal research design	Qualitative research method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105010	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105010
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	photo elicitation IE, visual IE, image-based institutional ethnography, visual data institutional ethnography	IE, sociology for people, institutional ethnographic inquiry, Smith's institutional ethnography
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	5	6
สรุป	Visual elicitation institutional ethnography (IE) integrates photo or image elicitation techniques into Dorothy Smith's institutional ethnography framework. Participants produce or select photographs and other visual materials that represent their everyday experience within an institution; these images then anchor in-depth interviews that surface the ruling relations — texts, policies, and organizational discourses — that coordinate people's work and lives from outside their immediate standpoint.	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.