Military mores – an institutional ethnography

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...

Institutional Ethnography – towards a Productive Sociology – an Interview with Dorothy

Military Intelligence Analysis: Institutional Influence

Institutional determinants of military spending

Drawing on a database for 1988-2006 containing information on 157 countries, we investigate the effects on military spending of government form, electoral rules, concentration of parliamentary parties, and ideology. From an OLS regression on pooled data, our results show that presidential democracies spend more than parliamentary systems on defense, whereas the presence of a plurality voting sy...

The influence of institutional discourses on the work of informal carers: an institutional ethnography from the perspective of informal carers

BACKGROUND The growing numbers of seniors worldwide and the need for support and services that follow from a higher standard of living have led to an increased focus on scarce benefits and limited human resources. At the same time, many western countries have had to make welfare cuts to balance budgets. This has brought the contributions of informal carers to the fore. Thus far, the focus has g...