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

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

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.

A collection of essays based on Smith's unique rebel sociology. Smith turns wit and common sense on the prevailing discourses of sociology, political economy, and popular culture to inquire directly into the actualities of peoples’ lives.

The articles in this book begin from a concern to understand the relation between patriarchy and capitalism and to come to grips with the dissatisfaction many women feel despite the rhetoric of sexual equality which has become commonplace.

Highly critical of current sociological practice, she also hopes that alternative appraoches will change the discipline.