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Author:   Dorothy E. Smith ,  Susan Marie Turner
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781442614802

ISBN 10:   1442614803
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   20 May 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction (Dorothy E. Smith & Susan Marie Turner) Part 1: Institutional Circuits Chapter 1. Policing the Gay Community: An Inquiry into Textually-mediated Social Relations (George W. Smith) Chapter 2. Regulating the Alternative: Certifying Organic Farming on Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Katherine Wagner) Chapter 3. Negotiating UN Policy: Activating Texts in Policy Deliberations (Lauren Eastwood) Part 2: Diverse Textual Technologies Chapter 4. Producing “What the Deans Know”: Cost Accounting and the Restructuring of Post-secondary Education (Liza McCoy) Chapter 5. Organizing Creation: The Work of the Musical Text in Concert Performance (Leanne Warren) Chapter 6. “Three in a Bed”: Nurses and Technologies of Bed Utilization in a Hospital (Janet M. Rankin and Marie L. Campbell) Part 3: Experiential Ethnography Chapter 7. Doing Child Protection Work (Gerald de Montigny) Part 4: Text-Reader Conversations Chapter 8. Reading Practices in Decision Processes (Susan M. Turner) Chapter 9. Discourse as Social Relations: Sociological Theory and the Dialogic of Sociology (Dorothy E Smith) Part 5: Extended Institutional Ethnography Chapter 10. Standardizing Child Rearing through Housing (Paul C. Luken and Suzanne Vaughan) Afterword (Dorothy E. Smith and Susan Marie Turner) Bibliography Contributors

Reviews

‘Smith’s conceptualization of texts and their powerful role in contemporary society is a vital contribution for all sociologists, not just institutional ethnographers.’ -- Órla Meadhbh * Sociology vol 49:06:2015 *

'Smith's conceptualization of texts and their powerful role in contemporary society is a vital contribution for all sociologists, not just institutional ethnographers.' -- rla Meadhbh Sociology vol 49:06:2015

'Smith's conceptualization of texts and their powerful role in contemporary society is a vital contribution for all sociologists, not just institutional ethnographers.' -- Orla Meadhbh Sociology vol 49:06:2015

Author Information

Dorothy E. Smith is an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria. Susan Marie Turner is an associate scholar with the Centre for Women’s Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

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