Dorothy E. Smith

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Dorothy Edith Smith (born 1926 in Great Britain) is a Canadian sociologist. She has had immense impacts on sociology and many other disciplines including women's studies, psychology, and educational studies, as well as sub-fields of sociology including feminist theory, family studies, and methodology.

Another Dorothy Smith (Dorothea Smith) (ca. 1575-?) was a daughter of Humphrey Ambrose Smith, an important silk merchant in Cheapside, London, England; and the official purveyor of silks and velvets to Queen Elizabeth.

[edit] Selected works

• Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People (2005)
• Writing the Social: Critique, Theory, and Investigations (1999)
• The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge (1990)
• Texts, Facts, and Femininity: Exploring the Relations of Ruling (1990)
• The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology (1987)
• Feminism and Marxism: A Place to Begin, A Way to Go (1977)

[edit] Professional recognition

In recognition of her contributions in "transformation of sociology", and for extending boundaries of "feminist standpoint theory" to "include race, class, and gender", Dr. Smith received numerous awards from American Sociological Association, including the American Sociological Association's Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award (1999) and the Jessie Bernard Award for Feminist Sociology (1993). In recognition of her scholarship, she also received two awards from the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association: the Outstanding Contribution Award (1990) and the John Porter Award for The Everyday is Problematic (1990).