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Dorothy E. Smith

1926 - 2022

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Dorothy Edith Smith (née Place; 6 July 1926 – 3 June 2022) was a British-born Canadian ethnographer, feminist studies scholar, sociologist, and writer with research interests in a variety of disciplines. These include women's studies, feminist theory, psychology, and educational studies. Smith was also involved in certain subfields of sociology, such as the sociology of knowledge, family studies, and methodology. She founded the sociological sub-disciplines of feminist standpoint theory and institutional ethnography. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dorothy E. Smith is the 6,109th most popular writer (up from 6,535th in 2019), the 5,160th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,822nd in 2019) and the 565th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Dorothy E. Smith ranks 6,109 out of 7,302Before her are Kevin Kelly, Katherine Pancol, Izaak Walton, Jean-Denis Bredin, Pauline Baynes, and John Betjeman. After her are Federico Moccia, Frank Schätzing, Ernest Lehman, Ğäliäsğar Kamal, William Bell Scott, and Paul Arène.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Dorothy E. Smith ranks 477Before her are Rawya Ateya, Larissa Volpert, Don Gordon, W. Michael Blumenthal, Peter Zadek, and Paolo Magnani. After her are George Ariyoshi, Bryan Forbes, Randy Weston, Anatoly Logunov, Patrice Wymore, and Tim LaHaye. Among people deceased in 2022, Dorothy E. Smith ranks 564Before her are James Forbes, Albert Pyun, Ronald Lopatni, Jürgen Sundermann, Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, and Gerhard Roth. After her are Raymond Briggs, Bjarni Tryggvason, Mike Hodges, Rodney Stark, Naomi Judd, and Javier Cárdenas.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dorothy E. Smith ranks 5,162 out of 8,785Before her are Dave Gibbons (1949), Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford (1946), Wendy Smith-Sly (1959), Izaak Walton (1593), Pauline Baynes (1922), and John Betjeman (1906). After her are Raymond Briggs (1934), John Garstang (1876), Howard Kendall (1946), Justin Hayward (1946), Peter Cook (1936), and Bryan Forbes (1926).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Dorothy E. Smith ranks 565Before her are Emilia Lanier (1569), Mina Loy (1882), Terence Rattigan (1911), Izaak Walton (1593), Pauline Baynes (1922), and John Betjeman (1906). After her are William Bell Scott (1811), David Mitchell (1969), Paul Scott (1920), Bernice Rubens (1923), James Herbert (1943), and John of Worcester (1100).