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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| Dorothy Helen Smith canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Canadian feminist
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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
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer |
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
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University of British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
feminist standpoint theory
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feminist theory ⓘ institutional ethnography ⓘ sociology ⓘ sociology of knowledge ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
critical sociology
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feminist sociology ⓘ |
| influenced | development of institutional ethnography in sociology ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Alfred Schütz
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Harold Garfinkel NERFINISHED ⓘ Karl Marx ⓘ feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing institutional ethnography
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feminist standpoint theory ⓘ work on everyday life and power relations ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
social relations of ruling
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textually mediated social organization ⓘ women’s everyday experiences ⓘ |
| movement |
Marxist feminism
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feminism ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People
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The Conceptual Practices of Power NERFINISHED ⓘ The Everyday World as Problematic NERFINISHED ⓘ Writing the Social NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
sociologist
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university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Northallerton, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Vancouver, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of sociology ⓘ |
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