Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies

Contributor(s): Smith, Dorothy E (Editor), Turner, Susan Marie (Editor)

ISBN: 9781442614802

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Binding Types:

Paperback

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Pub Date: May 20, 2014

Dewey: 301

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.86" H x 9.14" L x 6.06" W ( 1.22 lbs) 344 pages

BISAC Categories:

Education | General | Social Science | Sociology

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description:

Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies presents a selection of essays highlighting the ethnographic investigation of how texts coordinate and organize people's activities across space and time.

Brief description: Dorothy E. Smith is an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria.

Review Quotes:

'Smith's conceptualization of texts and their powerful role in contemporary society is a vital contribution for all sociologists, not just institutional ethnographers.'

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