Philip Smith
Professor of Sociology
Education:
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993
M.A., Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh, 1986
Areas of Interest:
Culture/Knowledge; Deviance, Crime and Law; Political Sociology and Social Movements; Theory.
Address:
493 College St, Room 302
Phone number:
203-432-3773
Email:
philip.smith@yale.edu
Vita:
Philip Smith is responsible for a dozen books and over sixty articles and chapters. His most recent book is “Climate Change as Social Drama” co-authored with Nicolas Howe (Cambridge 2015). Other books include Incivility: The Rude Stranger in Everyday Life (Cambridge 2010); Why War? The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War and Suez (Chicago, 2005); Punishment and Culture (Chicago, 2008). His textbook Cultural Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell 2001) has been translated into several languages and is now available in a second edition.
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 141, Crime and Deviance.
Graduate
- SOCY 502, Contemporary Sociological Theory: Durkheimian Sociology.
- SOCY 525, Cultural Sociology.
- SOCY 628, Workshop in Cultural Sociology.