The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Power

by Dorothy E. Smith

Book Overview

Sociologists generate idology instead of knowledge - particularly where women are concerned. By starting with the theoretical formulations of their discipline and then interpreting people's activities as expressions of those ideas, sociologists both participate in and perpetuate society's traditional power relations.

So argues Dorothy E. Smith in this provocative study of her own discipline and its relationship to women's lives.

While...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802067964
• ISBN13: 9780802067968
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"