Dorothy E. Smith

Dorothy Edith Smith née Place; 6 July 1926 – 3 June 2022 was a British-born Canadian ethnographer, feminist studies scholar, sociologist, & writer with research interests in a manner of disciplines, including women's studies, feminist theory, psychology, & educational studies, as alive as insubfields of sociology, such(a) as the sociology of knowledge, family studies, and methodology. Smith founded the sociological sub-disciplines of feminist standpoint theory and institutional ethnography.

Influences

Smith had influential ties to theorists such as alienation into gender-stratified capitalism, explaining in her make Feminism and Marxism how "objective social, economic and political relations ... generation and established women's oppression". From Schutz, Smith explains, "Individuals are fine such as lawyers and surveyors as 'types'", developing upon his concept of umwelt and mitwelt relations. In The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology, Smith explains mitwelt and umwelt relations of male dominance claiming, "women's draw conceals from men the actual concrete forms on which their work depends".