Health Science Qualitative Researchers' Institutional Ethnography Journey: Understanding Power Relations through a Critical Feminist Lens
Location
DeSantis Room 1047
Format Type
Plenary
Format Type
Panel
Start Date
16-1-2020 8:45 AM
End Date
16-1-2020 9:35 AM
Abstract
Institutional Ethnography (IE) is a critical form of sociological inquiry founded by Dorothy Smith- a Canadian feminist sociologist. IE is an alternative sociology-describing the social world (ontology), the knowledge required to understand our social world (epistemology) and how we go about collecting that knowledge (methodology). IE postulates that our social world and our everyday activities are controlled and coordinated textually and discursively by the institutional or ruling relations of our society.
Four qualitative health science researchers will describe their journey to collective empowerment through the help of an IE expert; exploring this methodology through analysis of online forums and chats and embracing a critical feminist lens.
1) SK has expertise with numerous qualitative methodologies as a nursing/primary care researcher. She has led a number of focused ethnographies, facilitated analysis in a number of mixed methods studies and utilized a postmodern narrative approach.
2) RS has expertise in quantitative and qualitative research with recent training in engaged scholarship (CBPR approach). As a social pharmacist, understanding social relations and social world through IE fits well with her research identity.
3) EB – a speech-language pathology researcher, who began with quantitative and mixed methods studies, has conducted descriptive qualitative, phenomenology, and CBPR studies.
4) RC’s research focus is on American Indian women’s experiences with polycystic ovarian syndrome. Due to the historical legacy of oppression for these women, RC has pursued this critical feminist methodology.
Our professional goal is to enhance learning and further develop our IE skills as part of an interprofessional qualitative collaborative.
Keywords
institutional ethnography, critical feminism, interprofessional, health sciences
Health Science Qualitative Researchers' Institutional Ethnography Journey: Understanding Power Relations through a Critical Feminist Lens
DeSantis Room 1047
Institutional Ethnography (IE) is a critical form of sociological inquiry founded by Dorothy Smith- a Canadian feminist sociologist. IE is an alternative sociology-describing the social world (ontology), the knowledge required to understand our social world (epistemology) and how we go about collecting that knowledge (methodology). IE postulates that our social world and our everyday activities are controlled and coordinated textually and discursively by the institutional or ruling relations of our society.
Four qualitative health science researchers will describe their journey to collective empowerment through the help of an IE expert; exploring this methodology through analysis of online forums and chats and embracing a critical feminist lens.
1) SK has expertise with numerous qualitative methodologies as a nursing/primary care researcher. She has led a number of focused ethnographies, facilitated analysis in a number of mixed methods studies and utilized a postmodern narrative approach.
2) RS has expertise in quantitative and qualitative research with recent training in engaged scholarship (CBPR approach). As a social pharmacist, understanding social relations and social world through IE fits well with her research identity.
3) EB – a speech-language pathology researcher, who began with quantitative and mixed methods studies, has conducted descriptive qualitative, phenomenology, and CBPR studies.
4) RC’s research focus is on American Indian women’s experiences with polycystic ovarian syndrome. Due to the historical legacy of oppression for these women, RC has pursued this critical feminist methodology.
Our professional goal is to enhance learning and further develop our IE skills as part of an interprofessional qualitative collaborative.