births
July 6, 1926
Dorothy E. Smith, Canadian sociologist (died 2022)
Dorothy E. Smith
Dorothy Edith Smith 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.
July 6
July 6 is the 187th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 178 days remain until the end of the year.