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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Contradictions for Feminist Social Scientists -- 3. Feminist Reflections on Political Economy -- 4. Sociological Theory: Methods of Writing Patriarchy into Feminist Texts -- 5. The Ruling Relations -- 6. Telling the Truth after Postmodernism -- 7. Exploring the Social Relations of Discourse: Sociological Theory and the Dialogic of Sociology -- 8. The Standard North American Family: SNAF as an Ideological Code -- 9. 'Politically Correct': An Organizer of Public Discourse -- 10. Texts and Repression: Hazards for Feminists in the Academy -- 11. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index

Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social organization. This sociology from women's standpoints reveals the present but largely unseen social relations of everyday life. This will be a foundational text for classes in sociology, ethnography, and women's studies

The article argues that Marx's use of the concept of ideology in The German Ideology is incidental to a sustained critique of how those he described as the German ideologists think and reason about society and history and that this critique is not simply of an idealist theory that represents society and history as determined by consciousness but of methods of reasoning that treat concepts, even of those of political economy, as determinants. His view of how consciousness is determined historically by our social being does not envisage some kind of mechanical transfer of class status to class consciousness. Rather, he works with an epistemology that takes the concepts foundational to political economy as expressions or reflections of the social relations of a mode of production. The difference between ideology and science is the difference between treating those concepts as the primitives of theory and treating them as sites for exploring the social relations that are expressed in them. Thus, the historical rather than further undermining claims to knowledge, provides both the conditions under which knowledge is possible and its limitations.