[critically]

(thinking about)

policy is critical.

how to analyze, explicate?

institutional ethnography offers one way…

toward a social onto/epistemological[1] “paradigm shift”[2]

that “keeps […] people* in view”[3]

*(and their everyday lives);

that “take[s] sides”[4]

to understand

“how”[5]

…?

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[1] Janet Rankin (2017a). Conducting analysis in institutional ethnography: Analytical work prior to commencing data collection. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 16(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406917734484

[2] Dorothy Smith (2005), as cited in Janet Rankin (2017b), p. 3. Conducting analysis in institutional ethnography: Guidance and cautions. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 16(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406917734472

[3] Timothy Diamond, as cited in Janet Rankin (2017b), p. 5. Conducting analysis in institutional ethnography: Guidance and cautions. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 16(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406917734472

[4] Caroline Cupit, Janet Rankin, & Natalie Armstrong (2021), p. 23. Taking sides with patients using institutional ethnography. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 10(1), 21–35. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-12-2019-0048

[5] J. L. Deveau (2009). Examining the Institutional Ethnographer’s toolkit. Socialist Studies/Études Socialistes, 4(2), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.18740/S4F60Z