Philip Smith

Philip Smith works in the area of cultural sociology and cultural theory. He is responsible for a dozen books and over sixty articles and chapters. His most recent book is Durkheim and After (Polity 2020) which offers an intellectual history of the Durkheimian paradigm from its beginnings until today. Other monographs include Climate Change as Social Drama (Cambridge 2015); Incivility: The Rude Stranger in Everyday Life (Cambridge 2010); Why War? The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War and Suez (Chicago, 2005); and Punishment and Culture (Chicago, 2008). His textbook Cultural Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell 2001) is well known to students globally and has been translated into several languages.

Recent Publications

Books

• Smith, Philip (2020). Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893-2020. Polity Press.
• Smith, Philip and Nicolas Howe (2015). Climate Change as Social Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Smith, Philip, Timothy L. Phillips and Ryan D. King (2010). Incivility: The Rude Stranger in Everyday Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Smith, Philip and Alexander Riley (2008). Cultural Theory: An Introduction, 2nd Edition. Malden, MA. Blackwell Publishing.
• Smith, Philip (2008). Punishment and Culture. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
• Smith, Philip (2005). Why War? The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War and Suez. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
• Alexander, Jeffrey C., and Philip Smith (eds.) (2005). The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Courses and Seminars

Undergraduate

• SOCY 041, Sociology of Social Control and Criminal Justice.
• SOCY 101, Introduction to Sociology.
• SOCY 141, Crime and Deviance.
• SOCY 169, Visual Sociology.
• SOCY 346, Public Behaviors and Social Spaces.

Graduate

• SOCY 502, Contemporary Sociological Theory: Durkheimian Sociology.
• SOCY 525, Cultural Sociology.
• SOCY 628, Workshop in Cultural Sociology.
• SOCY 653, Workshop in Advanced Sociological Writing and Research.