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    Dorothy Edith Smith

    Born

    Dorothy Edith Place


    () July 6, (age 98)

    Northallerton, Yorkshire, England

    Academic background
    Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
    Academic work
    Main interestsFeminist studies, sociology
    Notable worksInstitutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People, The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge, The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology
    Notable ideasInstitutional ethnography, ruling relations, feminist standpoint theory, bifurcation of consciousness

    Dorothy Edith SmithCM (born July 6, ) is a Canadian sociologist with research interests in a variety of disciplines, including women's studies, feminist theory, psychology, and educational studies, as well as in certain subfields of sociology, such as the sociology of knowledge, family studies, and methodology. Smith founded the sociological sub-disciplines