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Moving beyond everyday life in institutional ethnographies: methodological challenges and ethical dilemmas

Im Jenseits des Alltagslebens in institutionellen Ethnografien: methodologische Herausforderungen und ethische Dilemmata
Desplazándose más allá de la vida cotidiana en las etnografías institucionales: desafíos metodológicos y dilemas éticos
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Norstedt, Maria
Paulsen Breimo, Janne

Abstract

Institutional ethnography (IE) is a method of social inquiry that sets out to explore and analyze how people's daily activities are "hooked up" into institutional arrangements and ruling relations. Using the everyday life of people and their experiences as points of departure, the overall goal is to... view more

Institutional ethnography (IE) is a method of social inquiry that sets out to explore and analyze how people's daily activities are "hooked up" into institutional arrangements and ruling relations. Using the everyday life of people and their experiences as points of departure, the overall goal is to trace how these experiences are linked to translocal processes. When engaged in empirical inquiries, most IE researchers achieve this goal by moving beyond everyday "levels" of experience into various institutional settings. This article illuminates and critically analyzes the possible pitfalls of moving between various sites of empirical investigation. The article uses comparisons of two studies conducted in similar research settings and both concerning rehabilitation processes to describe two possible ways of conducting this kind of research. The aim is to contribute to a discussion of methodological and ethical challenges in institutional ethnographies in order to enrich it as a method of inquiry. (author's abstract)... view less


Institutionelle Ethnografie (IE) ist ein sozialwissenschaftliches Verfahren, das auf die Analyse von Alltagsaktivitäten im Rahmen institutioneller Arrangements zielt: Ausgehend von individuellen Alltagserfahrungen soll eruiert werden, wie diese in translokale Prozesse eingebunden sind. Hierzu verlas... view more

Institutionelle Ethnografie (IE) ist ein sozialwissenschaftliches Verfahren, das auf die Analyse von Alltagsaktivitäten im Rahmen institutioneller Arrangements zielt: Ausgehend von individuellen Alltagserfahrungen soll eruiert werden, wie diese in translokale Prozesse eingebunden sind. Hierzu verlassen Forschende das Feld alltäglicher Erfahrungen und suchen unterschiedliche institutionelle Settings auf. In diesem Beitrag befassen wir uns kritisch mit möglichen Fallstricken, die mit dem Wechseln der institutionellen Kontexte verbunden sein können. Wir nutzen hierzu zwei Studien zu Rehabilitationsprozessen, die in ähnlichen Settings durchgeführt wurden, um an ihnen verschiedene Wege der empirischen Forschung mittels IE zu veranschaulichen. Auf diese Weise wollen wir zu der Diskussion über methodologische und ethische Herausforderungen von IE und zu einer Verbesserung bei der Nutzung dieses Ansatzes beitragen. (Autorenreferat)... view less

Keywords
institution; ethnography; ethics; everyday life; experience; rehabilitation; methodology; analysis

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English

Publication Year
2016

Page/Pages
15 p.

Journal
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 17 (2016) 2

ISSN
1438-5627

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

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Creative Commons - Attribution


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