He lied to me,
I concurred.
He cheated on me,
I concurred.
He yelled at me,
I concurred.
He threw objects at me,
I concurred.
He slapped me,
I concurred.
He tore my clothes,
I concurred.
He beat me,
I concurred.
Then he stabbed me.
Lo! There is no more breath to concur.
Why do these people weep?
My father, my mother, my pastor, my friends;
I thought they all said, no matter what,
I should concur.
As a central analytic for the work of the institutional ethnographer, standpoint foregrounds the ways individuals are unique and therefore uniquely experience the broad social relations and institutional circuits in which they are embedded.
Standpoint recognizes that how people negotiate their social circumstances as professionals is entirely wrapped up in their ways of being in the world—who we are, what we know, how we are seen by others, our designated roles, and how we have been credentialed or come by our experiences all play a role in how we carry out our daily work.— Michelle LaFrance, Institutional Ethnography, 2019.
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