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  • Nepali Migrant Women

    Resistance and Survival in America

    by Shobha Hamal Gurung ...
    Series series Gender and Globalization
    In this pathbreaking and timely work, Hamal Gurung gives voice to the growing number of Nepali women who migrate to the United States to work in the informal economy. Highlighting the experiences of thirty-five women, mostly college educated and middle class, who take on domestic service and unskilled labor jobs, Hamal Gurung challenges conventional portraits of Third World women as victims forced ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Institutional Ethnography

    A Sociology for People

    by Dorothy E. Smith ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the detached viewpoint of the researcher, this is a method of inquiry for people, incorporating the expert's research and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Texts, Facts and Femininity

    Exploring the Relations of Ruling

    by Dorothy E. Smith ...
    'A crucial book for feminists, for sociology and the new "political anthropological historical school". It informs us how we are differently "situated" in and through social relations, which texts and images mediate, organise and construct.' Philip Corrigan, Professor of Applied Sociology, Exeter UniversityDorothy E. Smith is Professor of Sociology in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Under New Public Management

    Institutional Ethnographies of Changing Front-Line Work

    Edited by Alison I. Griffith, Dorothy E. Smith ...
    The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public sectors such as health, education, social services, and international development, and people management in the private sector.In these fields, organizations have increasingly adopted private-sector management ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Simply Institutional Ethnography

    Creating a Sociology for People

    by Dorothy E. Smith, Alison I. Griffith ...
    Series series Institutional Ethnography
    Institutional ethnography (IE) originated as a feminist alternative to sociologies defining people as the objects of study. Instead, IE explores the social relations that dominate the life of the particular subject in focus.Simply Institutional Ethnography is written by two pioneers in the field and grounded in decades of ground-breaking work. Dorothy Smith and Alison Griffith lay out the basics ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Institutional Ethnography as Practice

    by Marie L. Campbell, Marjorie L. DeVault, Tim Diamond, Lauren Eastwood, Alison Griffith, Liza McCoy, Eric Mykhalovskiy, Ellen Pence, George W. Smith, Dorothy E. Smith, Susan Turner1, Douglas Weatherbee2, Alex J. Wilson3 ...
    In this edited collection, institutional ethnographers draw on their field research experiences to address different aspects of institutional ethnographic practice. As institutional ethnography embraces the actualities of people's experiences and lives, the contributors utilize their research to reveal how institutional relations and regimes are organized. As a whole, the book aims to provide ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies

    Edited by Dorothy E. Smith, Susan Marie Turner ...
    In Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies, Dorothy E. Smith and Susan Marie Turner present a selection of essays highlighting perhaps the single most distinctive feature of the sociological approach known as Institutional Ethnography (IE) – the ethnographic investigation of how texts coordinate and organize people’s activities across space and time. The chapters, written by scholars ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

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    Studying the Complexity of Everyday Life

    Edited by Sierk Ybema, Dvora Yanow, Harry Wels, Frans H Kamsteeg ...
    Just as newspapers do not, typically, engage with the ordinary experiences of people′s daily lives, so organizational studies has also tended largely to ignore the humdrum, everyday experiences of people working in organizations. However, ethnographic approaches provide in-depth and up-close understandings of how the ′everyday-ness′ of work is organized and how, in turn, work itself organizes ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

  • Feminist Methodologies for Critical Researchers

    Bridging Differences

    by Joey Sprague ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    This accessible text on social research methodology teaches students of sociology and related disciplines how standard methods can be adapted toward critical ends. The second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate the latest critical scholarship, enhanced discussion of qualitative methods, new material on global issues, sex/sexuality/gender, new discussion of intersectionality, how ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Study of Organizations (RLE: Organizations)

    by David Dunkerley ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Organizations
    In this introduction for undergraduate students, the author surveys the development of the study of organizations from an historical point of view. He studies organizations within the framework of the main schools of thought, looks into the various levels of analysis involved, and considers the influence of the environment on the organization, particularly that of technology and of other ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Investigating Information Society

    by Hugh Mackay, Wendy Maples, Paul Reynolds ...
    This lively and engaging text introduces students to the major debates and data on the information society, and at the same time teaches them how to research it. It gives an overview of: * theorists of the information society, particularly Manuel Castells and Daniel Bell * social research methodologies, including positivist, interpretivist, critical and cultural * qualitative and quantitative ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Social Research

    by Tim May ...
    This text successfully bridges the gap between theory and methods in social research, bringing understanding of the dynamics of social relations. ... Read more

    $45.99 USD