knowing from within, stranger if coming from within as strange...

"The only way of knowing a socially constructed world is knowing it from within. We can never stand outside it. A relation in which sociological phenomena are objectified and presented as external to and indepent of the observer is itself a special social practice also known from within. The relation of observer and object of obersevation, of sociologist to "subject," is a specialized social relationship. Even to be a stranger is to enter a world constituted from within as strange. The strangeness itself is the mode in which it is experienced" (Dorothy Smith, The Conceptual Practices of Power).

This is the type of stuff I'm reading right now.