Dorothy E. Smith
| Dorothy Edith Smith | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Dorothy Edith Place July 6, 1926 Northallerton, Yorkshire, England |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Feminist Studies, Sociology |
| Notable works | Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People; The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge; The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology |
| Notable ideas | Institutional Ethnography, Ruling Relations, Standpoint Theory, Bifurcation of Consciousness |
Dorothy Edith Smith (born July 6, 1926) is a Canadian sociologist with research interests in a variety of disciplines, including women's studies, psychology, and educational studies, as well as in certain subfields of sociology, such as feminist theory, family studies, and methodology. Smith founded the sociological sub-disciplines of feminist standpoint theory and Institutional Ethnography.
Smith was born in Northallerton, Yorkshire England to Dorothy F. Place and Tom Place, who also had three sons. One of her brothers, Ullin Place, is well known for his work on consciousness as a process of the brain, another is a recognized British poet, Milner Place.
Smith did her undergraduate work at the London School of Economics, earning her B.Sc in Sociology with a Major in Social Anthropology in 1955. She then married William Reid Smith, whom she had met while attending LSE, and they moved to the United States. They both attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her Ph.D in Sociology in 1963, nine months after the birth of their second child. Not long afterwards she and her husband were divorced; she retained custody of the children. She then taught as a lecturer at UC Berkeley from 1964 to 1966. In 1967 she moved with her two sons to Vancouver British Columbia to teach at the University of British Columbia, where she helped to establish a Women's Studies Program. In 1977 she moved to Toronto, Ontario to work at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, where she stayed until she retired. In 1994 she became an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, where she continues her work in institutional ethnography.
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