On Institutional Discourse in Dorothy Smith’s Institutional Ethnography

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  • ドロシー・スミスの社会学における institutional discourseについて
  • ドロシー ・ スミス ノ シャカイガク ニ オケル institutional discourse ニ ツイテ

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of ‘ institutional discourse’ in Dorothy Smith’s Institutional Ethnography. According to Smith, the institutional discourse has a capacity to subsume or displace people’s experientially based knowledge. What people come to know that originates in their bodily being and action is translated as instances or expressions of the discourse’s frames, concepts, and categories. Smith regards institutional discourse as trans-local social relations that coordinate the practices of definite individual’s talking, writing, reading, watching and so forth, in particular local places at particular times. By entering into such social relations, people come to know ‘the social’ from pointless view and separate it from their own everyday life world. Based on Smith’s discussion, this paper examines the implication of her concept institutional discourse and explicates her demonstration of her own experience of a ‘text-reader conversation’ in reading a passage from sociological theory. In so doing this paper seeks to develop a sociological way of thinking which explores the social organization of knowledge without being captured by institutional discourse.

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