Dorothy E. Smith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Dorothy E. Smith

Canadian anthropologist

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1926

Place of Birth: Northallerton, England, United Kingdom

Profession: sociologist, anthropologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Dorothy Edith Smith (born July 6, 1926) 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 of feminist standpoint theory and institutional ethnography.