David Norman Smith
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 165046 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Norman Smith |
| NOMBRES | David Norman |
| APELLIDO | Smith |
| FIRMA | SMITH D N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1526-7766 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 102 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Max Weber's Odyssey
This article examines one aspect of Weber's thinking with respect to the United States: his view of frontier regions as new horizons for capitalism. This was not an incidental or side issue for Weber, whose famed analysis of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism was only half-finished when he traveled through the United States in 1904. Nor is Weber's outlook on this topic immaterial for contemporary historians, many of whom now affirm…
The Agitator Supplies What the Base Demands
The fierce loyalty of Donald Trump's base has long mystified his critics. For 8 years now, they have expressed puzzlement that his followers support him 'despite everything'-despite his incendiary rhetoric, his misogyny, his racial prejudices, and his authoritarianism. In this paper, I argue that, in fact, Trump's hectic agitation is precisely what his base wants. My reading of the data-including data I gathered with my collaborator, Eric Hanley,…
Capital and the Thrill of Domination
Max Weber was one of the leading spirits of a circle of social liberals who feared that capitalists in Germany would succumb to the temptations of authoritarianism – the “thrill of domination” – to such an extent that the capitalist class would fail to win legitimacy, leaving the door open to inimical alternatives. He argued this position in both academic and polemical texts, including his little-known 1890s lecture notes on “the labor question” …
Max Weber’s Odyssey
Of all the classical theorists, Max Weber is the most vivid in the eyes of scholars today. Simmel is an acquired taste, Durkheim a grey eminence, Tnnies an afterthought, and even Marx-despite his worldwide renown, despite the swelling tide of biographies -is an embodied Idea, a screen for projection and debate. Only Max Weber is a living presence for contemporaries. Curiosity is sparked not only by his work but by his personality, which biographe…
Authoritarianism Reimagined
Social scientists are often reluctant to think that cruel words express actual personal cruelty—so when they hear people speak harshly about minorities or women, they tend to blame stress and anxiety, not hate. In that spirit, it is often said that voters who favored Donald Trump in 2016 supported him not because they vibrated with his vindictive rhetoric but rather because they were fearful about their finances. However, many recent studies, inc…
A Workable New Plan, or Just Wishful Thinking
There are large parts of the Commission on Economic Justice's diagnosis that are unanswerable. There are some good ideas in the report, but some seem seriously misguided. There is a strong sense, as in other reports, of ‘industry good, finance bad’. The Commission says that the aim of its report is to ‘spark a national conversation on why we need a change of direction, and what that direction should be’. Such a conversation is needed, at this tim…
The Anger Games
Recently released data from the 2016 American National Election Study allow us to offer a multifaceted profile of white voters who voted for Donald J. Trump in the 2016 presidential election. We find that Trump's supporters voted for him mainly because they share his prejudices, not because they're financially stressed. It's true, as exit polls showed, that voters without four-year college degrees were likelier than average to support Trump. But …
Deferential Worker
Only a few attempts have been made to study working‐class conservatism in a sustained, textured, and many‐handed way. One of those attempts, in England in the decades from 1958 to 1977, sought to explain Tory voting by manual workers in terms of “deference” to wealth and rank. The results of that inquiry remain among the most thought‐provoking sources of insight into this enduringly pertinent issue.
Profit Maxims
Prometheus unchained Marx’s abolitionism
American Political Economy in Global Perspective
The Adventures of Professor Piketty
The Role of Universities in the Regional Creative Economies of the UK
The Triple-Helix model of knowledge−industry−government relationships is one of the most comprehensive attempts to explain the changing institutional frameworks for innovation and growth, especially in the regional and urban contexts. Since the 1970s policies have been developed across Europe to evolve this institutional landscape. Since the late 1990s, regional and urban development strategies have also sought to harness the growth potential of …
Slashing at Water with a Knife? Durkheim's Struggle to Anchor Sociology in First Principles
Charisma disenchanted
Purpose The aim of this chapter is to argue that charisma is a collective representation, and that charismatic authority is a social status that derives more from the “recognition” of the followers than from the “magnetism” of the leaders. I contend further that a close reading of Max Weber shows that he, too, saw charisma in this light. Approach I develop my argument by a close reading of many of the most relevant texts on the subject. This incl…
Academics, the ‘cultural third mission’ and the BBC
This article focuses on historical dimensions of knowledge creation and transformation by university academics. It explores their often overlooked role in the broadcast output of BBC radio in disseminating knowledge and ideas outside the educational environment, directly into the homes of the audience. Examples of this activity include the Open University, schools broadcasting, armed forces programmes and study circles. The concern here is the le…
We Are the Union
Mapping the Great Recession
Commentators agree that the crisis that boiled to a bubble in the fall of 2008 (“the Great Recession”) is the gravest downturn since the depression of the 1930s. That makes it one of the two greatest crises in the history of capitalism. And plainly, the crisis continues, yielding severe joblessness and a growing danger of government defaults, bank failures, and stock market crashes. Hundreds of commentators have sought to explain the crisis. Yet …
The Psychology of Genocide
Solidarity in Question
During World War II, Frankfurt School researchers studied attitudes in factories across America, finding high levels of anti-Semitism. Since the CIO's birth in 1935, labor had grown meteorically and seemed fundamentally progressive. But the Frankfurt study of Labor anti-Semitism showed the other side of the coin - namely, that many workers held anti-Semitic views of a kind familiar from fascist propaganda, even during an anti-fascist war. In this…
Dual‐sector further and higher education
Colleges and universities that provide both further and higher education are a key component of government policies to expand participation in English undergraduate education. The opportunities for access and progression made available by these organisations are regarded as central. At the same time, the division of further and higher education into sectors has implications for how ‘dual‐sector’ education is conceived and developed. Drawing on ea…
Sweatshops
Sweatshops, which now spark global controversy, arose in the shadows of the emerging English factory system. Originally minor offshoots of the industrial revolution, they are now among the most ubiquitous features of global production
The Fifty-One Society
This article discusses the relationship between sound broadcasting and adult education, looking at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) during the period of postwar reconstruction and austerity of the 1950s. It considers in particular one of the Corporation's most innovative educative programmes of the period, ‘The Fifty-One Society’. This was produced in Manchester by the Talks Department of the BBC North Region and first broadcast on 1 No…
The spectral reality of value
No interpreter of Marx's Capital has been as highly esteemed by Marx or as little noticed as Nikolai Ivanovich Sieber. Yet Sieber's contribution has been overlooked by almost all of the participants in the innumerable debates sparked by Capital. This is not only a failure of exegesis, but significant as well, since Sieber's work, in fact, is a valuable coda to Capital. Several aspects of Marx's theory which remain obscure to many critics can be b…
Dance of the Dialectic
The Anger Games
Recently released data from the 2016 American National Election Study allow us to offer a multifaceted profile of white voters who voted for Donald J. Trump in the 2016 presidential election. We find that Trump's supporters voted for him mainly because they share his prejudices, not because they're financially stressed. It's true, as exit polls showed, that voters without four-year college degrees were likelier than average to support Trump. But …
Faith, Reason, and Charisma
Charismatic authority has been central to twentieth-century politics and theory, yet confusion about charisma is rife. Max Weber's classic texts on this subject have been a major source of insight, yet key features of his analysis remain obscure-so much so that many scholars who call themselves Weber's disciples defend views opposed to his. For Weber, charisma is a social status; for many 'Weberians,' charisma is a personal quality. For Weber, ch…
Authoritarianism Reimagined
Social scientists are often reluctant to think that cruel words express actual personal cruelty—so when they hear people speak harshly about minorities or women, they tend to blame stress and anxiety, not hate. In that spirit, it is often said that voters who favored Donald Trump in 2016 supported him not because they vibrated with his vindictive rhetoric but rather because they were fearful about their finances. However, many recent studies, inc…
The Social Construction of Enemies
Fifty years after the Holocaust, anti-Jewish myths and sentiments are gaining momentum in Europe, the Islamic world, the Americas, and even in Japan. Why ? Does hate spring eternal ? Seeking an answer to this question, the author develops a seven-part argument. His aim is to advance what can reasonably be called a social constructionist perspective on the kind of antisemitic demonology that is now gaining worldwide currency. His method is to seek…
Dual‐sector further and higher education
Colleges and universities that provide both further and higher education are a key component of government policies to expand participation in English undergraduate education. The opportunities for access and progression made available by these organisations are regarded as central. At the same time, the division of further and higher education into sectors has implications for how ‘dual‐sector’ education is conceived and developed. Drawing on ea…
Accumulation and the clash of cultures
2002). Accumulation and the clash of cultures: Marx's ethnology in context. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 73-83
Negotiating Third World Mineral Agreements. Promises as Prologue
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 70 - 73
Man and Law in Urban Africa
Journal Article Man and Law in Urban Africa: A Role for Customary Courts in the Urbanization Process Get access David N. Smith David N. Smith 1David N. Smith is Secretary, International Legal Studies, Harvard Law School. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 20, Issue 2, Spring 1972, Pages 223–246, https://doi.org/10.2307/838981 Published: 01 April 1972
A Warmer Way of Disputing
A Warmer Way of Disputing: Mediation and Conciliation Get access David N. Smith David N. Smith **Assistant Dean for International Legal Studies, Administrator of the Graduate Program, Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 26, Issue suppl_1, Supplement 1978, Pages 205–216, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/26.suppl1.205 Published: 01 D…
Slashing at Water with a Knife? Durkheim's Struggle to Anchor Sociology in First Principles
Mapping the Great Recession
Commentators agree that the crisis that boiled to a bubble in the fall of 2008 (“the Great Recession”) is the gravest downturn since the depression of the 1930s. That makes it one of the two greatest crises in the history of capitalism. And plainly, the crisis continues, yielding severe joblessness and a growing danger of government defaults, bank failures, and stock market crashes. Hundreds of commentators have sought to explain the crisis. Yet …
American Influence on British Higher Education
Authoritarian Aggression and Social Stratification
Ever since Seymour Martin Lipset's famous paper on authoritarianism and the left(1959), it has been widely assumed that blue collar workers are uniquely susceptible to the temptations of hate. Thisassumption was tested and (itseemed) confirmed by Melvin Kahn & Carmi Schooler (1983), among others. Yet in our recent research we have found contrary evidence - evidence suggesting, in fact, that comparatively high status professionals are significantl…
The Genesis of Genocide in Rwanda
The 'Isolated Mass' Revisited
The authors examine how far inter-colliery variations in local strike activity in Britain between the Wars can be explained by the characteristics of their immediate localities highlighted by Kerr and Siegel's 'isolated mass' theory. A regression analysis suggests that some of the variables indicated by Kerr and Siegel did affect strike activity but only weakly. A contingency table analysis confirms that some of the Kerr-Siegel variables serve to…
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Man and Law in Urban Africa
Journal Article Man and Law in Urban Africa: A Role for Customary Courts in the Urbanization Process Get access David N. Smith David N. Smith 1David N. Smith is Secretary, International Legal Studies, Harvard Law School. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 20, Issue 2, Spring 1972, Pages 223–246, https://doi.org/10.2307/838981 Published: 01 April 1972
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Remarks by David N. Smith
I would like to begin this discussion by providing a framework for a general analysis of the concessions problem. If one were to take a look at the general literature relating to concessions in the late 1940’s, 1950’s, and early 1960’s, one would obtain a very special view of concessions in that literature. This view was shaped, to some extent, by the sociology of concessions knowledge. Most concessionaires and most concession-giving countries ha…
The State of British Sociology
Integration of Customary and Modern Legal Systems in Africa
Journal Article Integration Of Customary And Modern Legal Systems In Africa Get access Integration Of Customary And Modern Legal Systems In Africa. Ed. for the Institute of African Studies, University of Ife by the Faculty of Law, University of Ife. New York: Africana Publishing Corporation and Ile-Ife, Nigeria: University of Ife Press, 1971. Pp. 457. David N. Smith David N. Smith *Assistant Dean, International Legal Studies, Harvard Law School. …
A Warmer Way of Disputing
A Warmer Way of Disputing: Mediation and Conciliation Get access David N. Smith David N. Smith **Assistant Dean for International Legal Studies, Administrator of the Graduate Program, Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 26, Issue suppl_1, Supplement 1978, Pages 205–216, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/26.suppl1.205 Published: 01 D…
Legal Choices for State Enterprises in the Third World . Robert C. Pozen
Negotiating Third World Mineral Agreements. Promises as Prologue
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 70 - 73
Agents and Victims in South China
Time, Place, and Circumstance
Journal Article Time, Place, and Circumstance: Neo-Weberian Studies in Comparative Religious History, edited by William H. Swatos, Jr. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990, 241 pp. $39.95 Get access David Norman Smith David Norman Smith University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 52, Issue 1, Spring 1991, Pages 127–128, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710723 Published: 01 Mar…
The 'Isolated Mass' Revisited
The authors examine how far inter-colliery variations in local strike activity in Britain between the Wars can be explained by the characteristics of their immediate localities highlighted by Kerr and Siegel's 'isolated mass' theory. A regression analysis suggests that some of the variables indicated by Kerr and Siegel did affect strike activity but only weakly. A contingency table analysis confirms that some of the Kerr-Siegel variables serve to…
Resurrecting Marx
The last two decades have seen Marxism's academic renascence. In fields as diverse as law, literary criticism, history, and philosophy, Marxism once again captivates no small number of scholars. In part, this reassessment is driven by the efforts of a group of philosophers and economists to reconstruct Marx from the ground up on a more rigorous basis. The work of these - who include G.A. Cohen, Jon Elster, and John Roemer - is given a sustained e…
Social Division
The Genesis of Genocide in Rwanda
Down and Out in Wigan and Barnsley
The authors investigate the determinants of strike activity in a random sample of British collieries in the 1927-38 period. A review of the literature leads to the identification of six models of intercolliery strike activity. After following a general-to-specific modeling strategy using probit and Tobit techniques, the authors conclude that the significant factors causing the observed intercolliery variation in strike propensity were colliery si…
Ascetic virtues character and charisma in Max Weber
The Social Construction of Enemies
Fifty years after the Holocaust, anti-Jewish myths and sentiments are gaining momentum in Europe, the Islamic world, the Americas, and even in Japan. Why ? Does hate spring eternal ? Seeking an answer to this question, the author develops a seven-part argument. His aim is to advance what can reasonably be called a social constructionist perspective on the kind of antisemitic demonology that is now gaining worldwide currency. His method is to seek…
A Weberian Theory of Human Society
The psychocultural roots of genocide
In April 1994, the small east African nation of Rwanda became the site of one of the most violent episodes of the 20th century. Over the course of just 100 days, an embattled authoritarian state organized the slaughter of at least 850,000 Rwandans. Briefly, worldwide attention was riveted. But clichés about "age-old tribal hatreds" soon dominated discussion, conveying the impression that this was simply the latest episode in an unending cycle of …
The psychocultural roots of genocide
The Ambivalent Worker
It is seldom noticed that the concept of the authoritarian personality sprang from research - above all by Max Weber and Erich Fromm - on the ambivalence of the German working class. Unlike earlier social critics and theorists, Weber and Fromm did not simply assume that workers are naturally anti-authoritarian: nor, unlike many later theorists, did they assume the reverse. The working class, they found, is complex divided - indeed, contradictory.…
Faith, Reason, and Charisma
Charismatic authority has been central to twentieth-century politics and theory, yet confusion about charisma is rife. Max Weber's classic texts on this subject have been a major source of insight, yet key features of his analysis remain obscure-so much so that many scholars who call themselves Weber's disciples defend views opposed to his. For Weber, charisma is a social status; for many 'Weberians,' charisma is a personal quality. For Weber, ch…
Authoritarian Aggression and Social Stratification
Ever since Seymour Martin Lipset's famous paper on authoritarianism and the left(1959), it has been widely assumed that blue collar workers are uniquely susceptible to the temptations of hate. Thisassumption was tested and (itseemed) confirmed by Melvin Kahn & Carmi Schooler (1983), among others. Yet in our recent research we have found contrary evidence - evidence suggesting, in fact, that comparatively high status professionals are significantl…
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
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