Philip Smith

Biography

Philip Smith works in the area of cultural sociology and cultural theory. He is responsible for a dozen books and over 60 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.

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