‘You Are Here’: an interview with Dorothy E. Smith
Bibliographic record
Abstract
feminism • institutional ethnography • Marxism • texts • sociology for people Mots-clés Dorothy E. Smith • féminisme • ethnographie institutionnelle • marxisme • textes • sociologie pour tousDorothy Smith is a world-renowned Marxist feminist scholar and activist and a formidable intellect.Her decades of scholarly and activist contributions combine a lively sociological imagination with unfailing rigour, inspiring and challenging academics, professionals and 'ordinary' women and men to consider how social relationships and power are organized in everyday life.She is the author of many ground-breaking articles and books, including The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology (1987), Texts, Facts, and Femininity: Exploring the Relations of Ruling (1990), Writing the Social: Critique, Theory and Investigations (1999) and Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People (2005).She is best-known for her creation of institutional ethnography (IE), a method of inquiry she originally characterized as a 'sociology for women' but has since recrafted as a 'sociology for people'.Dorothy Smith was educated at the London School of Economics (B Sc.1955) and did her doctoral studies at Berkeley, California (PhD 1963).Following several years as lecturer at Berkeley and then the University of Essex, she became associate professor and later professor at the
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".