On standpoint, agency and participatory commitment in research:Exploring potentials in institutional ethnography
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the Nordic countries Institutional ethnography (IE) presents a fairly new approach to qualitative welfare studies ‘from below’. IE is founded by the Canadian critical, feminist sociologist Dorothy Smith with a commitment to do research with people and for people – and see people as knowers of their lives and work - broadly understood. The intention of much IE is thus to present researchers with a methodology or rather an approach (a sociology) to map the institutional coordination and the ‘ruling relations’ of societal structures and discourses - but as they appear in the everyday lives of people at work or as citizens/clients/users/pupils (etc.) of the institutions in view. This keynote outlines the understandings of the idea of standpoint in the Institutional Ethnographical tradition, while also discussing and challenging the capacity of IE framework and methodology, to further the insights of researchers to gain a more nuanced and perhaps optimistic view of people as knowers and learners dealing with their institutional lives in competent ways. I will also discuss ways of supplementing vital institutional insights with other understandings and approaches to peoples’ experiences and their ways of dealing with and learning throughout their institutional lives
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.012 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it