Dorothy Smith

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Dorothy Edith Smith (born July 6, 1926 in Northallerton , North Yorkshire , England ) is a sociologist and feminist living in Canada . She is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and founded the sociological disciplines of feminist point of view theory and institutional ethnography .

Dorothy Smith received her undergraduate degree from the London School of Economics . She met her husband there, moved with him to the United States, where she completed her doctorate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1963 , and divorced him soon after the birth of her second child. Until 1966 she was a lecturer at the University of Berkeley. She then moved with her two sons to Vancouver , where she taught at the University of British Columbia , and in 1977 to Toronto , where she held a chair in the Department of Sociology in Education of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education until her retirement . In 1994 she became an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria . Smith is a member of the international advisory board of the academic feminist journal Signs .

Dorothy Smith is the sister of the philosopher Ullin Place and the writer Milner Place .

Fonts (selection)

  • Institutional Ethnography. A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek CA 2005, ISBN 0-7591-0501-4 .
  • with Alison Griffith: Mothering for Schooling. RoutledgeFalmer, New York NY et al. 2005, ISBN 0-415-95053-8 .
  • Writing the social. Critique, Theory, and Investigations. University of Toronto Press, Toronto et al. 1999, ISBN 0-8020-4307-0 .
  • The active text. A sociology for women (= argument special volume. 235 NF = coyote texts ). Argument-Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-88619-235-0 .
  • The Conceptual Practices of Power. A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge. Northeastern University Press, Boston MA 1990, ISBN 1-55553-072-9 .
  • Texts, Facts, and Femininity. Exploring the Relations of Ruling. Routledge, London et al. 1990, ISBN 0-415-03231-8 .
  • The Everyday World as Problematic. A Feminist Sociology. Northeastern University Press, Boston MA 1987, ISBN 1-55553-015-X .
  • Feminism and Marxism. A Place to Begin, A Way to Go. New Star Books, Vancouver 1977, ISBN 0-919888-71-2 .

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SURNAME Smith, Dorothy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Dorothy Edith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English feminism theorist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Northallerton , North Yorkshire , England