Dorothy Helen Smith

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Dorothy Helen Smith was a Canadian sociologist and feminist theorist best known for developing institutional ethnography as a method of inquiry into everyday life and power relations.

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instanceOf Canadian feminist
feminist theorist
human
sociologist
academicDegree PhD in sociology
citizenship Canadian
countryOfBirth United Kingdom NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Canada
dateOfBirth 1926-07-06
dateOfDeath 2022-06-03
educatedAt London School of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
employer Ontario Institute for Studies in Education NERFINISHED
University of British Columbia NERFINISHED
University of Toronto NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork feminist standpoint theory
feminist theory
institutional ethnography
sociology
sociology of knowledge
gender female
hasAcademicDiscipline critical sociology
feminist sociology
influenced development of institutional ethnography in sociology
influencedBy Alfred Schütz NERFINISHED
Harold Garfinkel NERFINISHED
Karl Marx
feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s
knownFor developing institutional ethnography
feminist standpoint theory
work on everyday life and power relations
languageOfWorkOrName English
mainInterest social relations of ruling
textually mediated social organization
women’s everyday experiences
movement Marxist feminism
feminism
notableWork Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People NERFINISHED
The Conceptual Practices of Power NERFINISHED
The Everyday World as Problematic NERFINISHED
Writing the Social NERFINISHED
occupation sociologist
university professor
placeOfBirth Northallerton, England NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Vancouver, Canada NERFINISHED
positionHeld professor of sociology

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C. Wright Mills spouse Dorothy Helen Smith