Abstract
Institutional ethnography (IE) begins from the standpoint of everyday experience and explores how people’s lives “hook into” activities that extend across time and place. In recent years, IE has grown as a research enterprise and become popular in nursing, health sciences, education, and social work. While we welcome this development, we are concerned about the fate of IE within sociology—its disciplinary home. We respond to that concern by writing about the challenges of teaching IE in the context of graduate sociological education. We contribute to discourse about teaching IE as an alternative sociology through a dialogue combining the perspectives of a course director and students involved in an IE course taught in a sociology graduate program in Toronto, Canada. We address the following issues: positioning IE as an alternative sociology; the role of theory in IE; orthodoxy and IE’s relationship to other research approaches; and IE, politics, and critique.
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