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- Title
The everyday world is problematic: Ideology and recursion in Dorothy Smith's micro-sociology.
- Authors
Doran, Chris
- Abstract
The first half of Dorothy Smith's career was systematically concerned with uncovering ideological practices in conventional sociology and emphasizing the necessity for research to begin from embodied experience. Unfortunately, despite Smith's groundbreaking work in establishing a critical micro-sociology, this paper argues that her own work is also ideological (in her own sense of that term). Through a textual analysis of Smith's research I demonstrate not only her tacit ideological practices (operating at the level of frame rather than content) in her treatment of contemporary Canadian "mothering," but that, as a consequence, she begins to get caught up in a strange recursive loop in which she curiously reverses her theoretical positions regarding both ideology and embodied experience.
- Subjects
MICROSOCIOLOGY; EVERYDAY life; SMITH, Dorothy; SOCIOLOGISTS; IDEOLOGY; INTERPERSONAL relations
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1993, Vol 18, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3340838