An Analytic Glossary to Social Inquiry Using Institutional and Political Activist Ethnography

Toward an Activist Political Theory

An institutional ethnography approach to housing studies

In this paper we discuss how institutional ethnography, a feminist materialist method of inquiry, can be use to study the social institution of housing. We begin providing a brief description of institutional ethnography and then recount how we are applying this approach in a study of changes in housing in the United States in the twentieth century. For purposes of illustration, we summarize tw...

An institutional ethnography inquiry of health care work in special education: a research protocol

BACKGROUND Special education for children with chronic health conditions or disabilities requires the integration of health care work with education. This phenomenon occurs in an understudied and challenging context for integrated care despite policies and protocols that outline work processes in this context. We are interested in an approach to inquiry that will allow us to address gaps in cur...

Introductory remarks to an inquiry into the ethnography of Afghanistan

Model-Driven Inquiry: Beyond Ethnography and Contextual Inquiry

1 Extended Abstract Model-driven approaches are of growing influence in interaction design owing to the promise of yielding more orderly and manageable processes with enhanced traceability from initial conception and the establishment of requirements through to design and final realization. Model-driven inquiry is an agile technique, an accelerated alternative in its own right to contextual inq...