Sociology / Organizations

This book presents a comprehensive history of organized crime in the United States – and how it has been a significant part of the nation’s development, rather than an external threat to its political, economic, and social structures.

This book traces the many alignments between contemporary artistic creativity and its formal organization within higher education.

Written by the two preeminent voices in the field, this book is a guide to the fundamentals of institutional ethnography.

Alberta: A Health System Profile provides the first comprehensive and detailed overview of the economic, political, population health, program and service delivery aspects of health care in Alberta and the resulting health outcomes.

Examining high profile case studies of medically caused suffering and death, When Medicine Goes Awry critiques the present functioning of the medical care system and the pharmaceutical industry.

Degrees of Dignity examines how global discourses and policy models are affecting and altering contemporary higher education systems in the Arab Middle East and North Africa.

Combining a historical account with a current analysis, Newfoundland and Labrador: A Health System Profile is the first comprehensive study of the province’s health institutions, policies, and outcomes.

This book provides insight into how the Canadian health care system is financed and organized, how it has evolved over time, and how well it performs relative to peer countries.

In Regulating Professions, Tracey L. Adams explores the emergence of self-regulating professions in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia from Confederation to 1940.

In Paramedics On and Off the Streets, Michael K. Corman embarks on an institutional ethnography of the complex, mundane, intricate, and exhilarating work of paramedics in Calgary, Alberta.

Covering Canadian Crime offers a deep and detailed look at both the perennial issues in crime reporting and how changes in technology, business practices, and professional ethics are affecting today’s crime coverage.

The chapters in this collection offer compelling and candid analyses of the realities of nonprofit funding in Western Canada.

Under New Public Management explores how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public sectors.

Youth Work is a sophisticated examination of the troubling experiences of young people living outside the care of parents or guardians, as well as of the difficulties of the frontline workers who take responsibility for assisting them.

Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies presents a selection of essays highlighting the ethnographic investigation of how texts coordinate and organize people’s activities across space and time.