Greg Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603899 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greg Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greg |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1886-5550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Using an ‘effective’ model of professional development in science education to improve primary teachers’ classroom practice: The CSSP experience
The international research literature concludes that effective professional development for teachers needs to: be truly collaborative involving an active role for practitioners; help break down teacher insulation and isolation; provide opportunities for teachers to work together in developing their classroom practices. However, professional development, as understood in the Irish context, tends to be characterised by predominantly transmission of…
Symposium on Erving Goffman and the Cold War , by Gary D. Jaworski
The symposium on Gary D. Jaworski's book Erving Goffman and the Cold War is based on an "Author meets Critics" event held at the European SSSI 2024 Conference in Pisa. After a brief introduction by Dirk vom Lehn, Gary Jaworski briefly suggests his motivation for writing the book. Subsequently, three Goffman scholars, Greg Smith, Chiara Bassetti and Stacey Hannem critically engage with the text, before Gary Jaworski offers his response to the crit…
A Note on “Natural Metaphors”: Jaworski’s Contribution
In Erving Goffman and the Cold War, Gary Jaworski (2023) draws upon Harold Garfinkel’s (1956) notion of “natural metaphor” to interpret Goffman’s sociology as responsive to the distinctive ethos of Cold War USA. The note examines the origins of cold war concerns in Goffman’s writings and how natural metaphors were deployed by Jaworski in his book. It raises some questions about the interpretation and how it connects with recent thinking about the…
‘So, your words weren’t twisted were they?’: Formulations in a restorative justice meeting
Formulations, one type of talk about talk, arise in restorative justice meetings just as they do in other discursive domains. They represent explicit references to things said previously and can perform several functions. Our study of formulations in a restorative meeting between probation staff and an offender identified five such functions: communicating active listening, promoting affiliative talk, changing the offender's way of thinking, prai…
Examining the relationships among maladaptive perfectionism, scrupulosity, self-compassion, and suicidal ideation among Latter-day Saints
This study examined the relationships between maladaptive perfectionism, scrupulosity, self-compassion, psychological well-being, and suicidal ideation among members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Recruitment involved 104 LDS adult individuals who completed measures related to maladaptive perfectionism, scrupulosity, self-compassion, psychological well-being, and suicidal ideation. Maladaptive perfectionism and scrupulo…
Testing the AQ10 as a Predictor of Poor Work-Related Psychological Wellbeing Among Newly Ordained Anglican Clergy in England
Although the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ10) was originally designed to identify referrals for professional diagnosis for autism spectrum disorders (ASD), recent studies suggest that this instrument may also be tapping more generalised affective disorders. Working with this revised interpretation and a slightly revised measure (dropping one item), this study examines the predictive power of the AQ10 to account for additional variance, after perso…
Assessing Signs of Burnout Among Recently Ordained Stipendiary Anglican Curates In England
This study examines the responses of 253 recently ordained stipendiary Anglican curates in the Church of England to the Francis Burnout Inventory during their second year in ministry. The data confirm the internal consistency reliability among recently ordained clergy of the scales proposed by this measure: Scale of Emotional Exhaustion in Ministry, and Satisfaction in Ministry Scale. While positive affect is high, with 90% agreeing with the item…
Engaging Jungian function-orientations in a hermeneutical community: Exploring John 11: 1–17
Working within the sensing, intuition, feeling, thinking (SIFT) approach to biblical hermeneutics, the present study invited a hermeneutical community of 23 type-aware participants to explore the account of the Death of Lazarus as reported in John 11: 1–17 within type-alike groups differentiated according to the participants’ dominant function-orientation. Five groups were constituted differentiating: introverted sensing, introverted intuition, e…
The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies
The chapter discusses Erving Goffman’s approach to fieldwork. Borrowing this handbook’s approach to seeing Goffman in toto, the chapter situates Goffman’s fieldwork inside his sociological enterprise. It finds Goffman’s fieldwork is a metaphor for his sociology – to understand his approach to fieldwork is to capture his sociological ambitions. The case for this understanding is made in three stages: First is a summary of the primary research tech…
Hiring labourers for the vineyard and making sense of God’s grace at work: An empirical investigation in hermeneutical theory and ordinary theology
The Matthean parable of the labourers in the vineyard is open to multiple interpretations. For some, the parable may speak of God’s unlimited grace and generosity; for others the parable may speak of God’s unfairness. The present study is set within the context of an emerging interest in the concept of grace as a topic for empirical enquiry. The study draws on the theoretical framework provided by the notion of ordinary theology and employs the s…
Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies
Moral work in victim–offender meetings
Although many studies of restorative justice touch on its moral dimensions, they provide a rather fragmentary view of the moral work that takes place in meetings between victims and offenders. We treat moral work as a discursive phenomenon that emerges through the evaluative rendering of character and behaviour in extended sequences of talk. Using transcripts from four victim–offender meetings, we explore how participants work within the structur…
Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies
Fiction in Goffman
There are no references to creative fiction in Erving Goffman's founding statement of his sociology of the interaction order, his 1953 Chicago doctoral dissertation ( Communication Conduct in an Island Community ). Yet four pages into his first and best-known book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959), Goffman cites a 'novelistic incident' describing the posturing of Preedy, a 'vacationing Englishman' on a Spanish beach. It is introdu…
Preaching on the revised common lectionary for the feast of Christ the King: Joy for intuitive thinking types, nightmare for sensing feeling types
This qualitative study was positioned within an emerging scientific field concerned with the interaction between biblical text and the psychological profile of the preacher. The theoretical framework was provided by the sensing, intuition, feeling and thinking (SIFT) approach to biblical hermeneutics, an approach rooted in reader-perspective hermeneutical theory and in Jungian psychological type theory that explores the distinctive readings of se…
The influence of a teachers’ professional development programme on primary school pupils’ understanding of and attitudes towards sustainability
Transformative teacher education can support educational experiences which provide the opportunity for pupils to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes to contribute towards tackling the significant sustainability issues with which we are faced. It is argued that for professional development programmes to be effective they need to improve pupil learning as well as transform teachers’ classroom practice. This paper utilises a mixed-methods de…
Theologising Brexit: A Liberationist and Postcolonial Critique
Anthony Reddie, one of a very small number of Black British academic theologians, was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, to Jamaican parents of the Windrush generation and raised in a majority White Meth
Teaching about sustainability through inquiry-based science in Irish primary classrooms: The impact of a professional development programme on teacher self-efficacy, competence and pedagogy
Research suggests that innovative and engaging professional development is instrumental in supporting teachers in developing their competence and confidence in teaching sustainability. An international initiative was developed to explore whether a competencies-oriented Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) professional development model was transferable across three different international contexts (Ireland, Germany and Mexico). This paper …
Misgivings about Goffman
The purpose of this chapter is to excavate and explore some of the critical potential in the work of Erving Goffman. Even though Goffman is often depicted as an apolitical microsociologist with no genuine understanding of power or social conflict, this chapter critically engages with some of these misgivings about Goffman. This is done through an outlining of his perspective on topics such as social structure, power and politics. It is shown that…
A framework linking ecosystem services and human well‐being: Saltmarsh as a case study
The ecosystem services approach is based on the interdependencies between nature and human well‐being. However, while the ecosystem services aspect of this approach is well‐developed, the human well‐being aspect remains unstructured and vaguely defined. An integrated conceptual framework was developed by adapting and linking the UK National Ecosystem Assessment‐Follow On framework with human well‐being domains. As well as benefits, the notion of …
The Story of the Nearest Relative: Shifts in Footing in Dramaturgical Replayings
This discussion assesses the utility of Goffman’s thinking about conversational interaction for illuminating features of a research interview between one of the two authors (LM) and a fellow social work professional. We use this case to explore aspects of Goffman’s contribution to the sociological understanding of spoken interaction. While many of his ideas offer rich sources of guidance for interactionist and qualitative researchers, the value o…
The Routledge Research Companion to The History of Evangelicalism
Religion and Brexit: Populism and the Church of England
Drawing on our own recent surveys on beliefs and values in Great Britain (Woodhead) and evangelical Christians in the UK (Smith) this article explores the links between religion, views and votes on leaving or remaining in the EU in the UK’s 2016 referendum. Poll data gathered shortly after the 2016 referendum (n = 3,243) allows us to test associations between religious identity and behaviour and attitudes to voting Leave, while controlling for ot…
Difficult texts: Psalm 1
Psalm 1 poses a challenge for the Christian preacher regarding the grim judgement passed on the wicked. This study examines how thinking types and feeling types among preachers approach the challenge in distinctive ways
Changing patterns in recruitment to stipendiary ministry: A study in psychological profiling
This article tests the hypothesis that the Church of England may be recruiting into stipendiary ministry a different psychological profile of clergy to respond to the changing demands of parochial ministry. Using the Francis Psychological Type Scales, the profiles of 90 male and 35 female curates under the age of 40 ordained into stipendiary ministry in 2009 and 2010 were compared with the profiles of 626 clergymen and 237 clergywomen reported in…
Introducing Cultural Studies
This updated, new edition of Introducing Cultural Studies provides a systematic and comprehensible introduction to the concepts, debates and latest research in the field. Reinforcing the interdisciplinary nature of Cultural Studies, the authors first guide the reader through cultural theory before branching out to examine different dimensions of culture in detail – including globalisation, the body, geography, fashion, and politics. Incorporating…
Faith in community and communities of faith? government rhetoric and religious identity in Urban Britain
This paper examines the concept of community and the discourse around it in the context of the religious diversity in urban areas in England. Sociology has a long history of working with, deconstructing, and at times rejecting the usefulness of the term ‘community’ and many scholars have in the context of postmodernity preferred to talk about processes of identity formation and networking. Constructions of identity in which faith affiliation play…
Religion and Brexit: Populism and the Church of England
Drawing on our own recent surveys on beliefs and values in Great Britain (Woodhead) and evangelical Christians in the UK (Smith) this article explores the links between religion, views and votes on leaving or remaining in the EU in the UK’s 2016 referendum. Poll data gathered shortly after the 2016 referendum (n = 3,243) allows us to test associations between religious identity and behaviour and attitudes to voting Leave, while controlling for ot…
Racing against Time? Aspects of the Temporal Organization of the Runner's World
Drawing on documentary sources and participant observation, I seek to specify salient temporal characteristics of the social world of running. Extant analyses seem preoccupied with criticizing running temporality for reproducing, in a sporting context, those Taylorized, alienating beliefs and oppressive practices typical of capitalist sites of production. A different point of departure, runners' own understandings, shows that temporal considerati…
Flu frames
This article investigates how the frame concept was used in media studies of the 2009 flu pandemic representation. It examines how frame (or framing) analysis has illuminated sociological features of these depictions and how the frame concept facilitated an analytic understanding of media representations. The article first outlines the principal uses of the concept in the social sciences. It then examines the approach and findings of empirical st…
Fiction in Goffman
There are no references to creative fiction in Erving Goffman's founding statement of his sociology of the interaction order, his 1953 Chicago doctoral dissertation ( Communication Conduct in an Island Community ). Yet four pages into his first and best-known book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959), Goffman cites a 'novelistic incident' describing the posturing of Preedy, a 'vacationing Englishman' on a Spanish beach. It is introdu…
The influence of a teachers’ professional development programme on primary school pupils’ understanding of and attitudes towards sustainability
Transformative teacher education can support educational experiences which provide the opportunity for pupils to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes to contribute towards tackling the significant sustainability issues with which we are faced. It is argued that for professional development programmes to be effective they need to improve pupil learning as well as transform teachers’ classroom practice. This paper utilises a mixed-methods de…
Introducing Cultural Studies
A rapidly changing world – in part driven by huge transformations in technology and mobility - means we all encounter shifting cultures, and new cultural and social interactions daily. Powerful forces such as consumption and globalization exert an enormous influence on all walks and levels of life across both space and time. Cultural Studies remains at the vanguard of consideration of these issues. This completely revised second edition of Introd…
Goffman and Social Organization Studies in Sociological Legacy. London and New York: Routledge, 1999
Difficult Texts - Mark 10.46-52
Accounts of healings like the one reported concerning Bartimaeus present a challenge for preachers on Disability Awareness Sunday. This study illustrates how among experienced preachers sensing types and intuitive types approach the problem in different ways
The Tangled Web of Taliban and Associated Movements
Following the devastating terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,worldwide attention became focused on the Taliban and al-Qaida forcesin Afghanistan. Prior to the attacks, many people had never heard of the Taliban or their shar'ia-law style of government. Since 2001, manysplinter groups have formed in response to the continual United Statespresence in the region. Today, the term Taliban has been used to envelop several groups such as the Tehrik…
Religious Identities, Social Networks and the Power of Information: Fieldwork Issues in Mapping Religious Diversity in London
The work of Manuel Castells is perhaps the most comprehensive treatment of contemporary urban society covering urban geography, urban social movements, the power of identity, the rise of the network society and the significance of information technologies at a global level. Other sociologists such as Robertson and Beyer have developed theories of globalization and glocalization with particular reference to religion, while scholars in the discipli…
Ethnicity, religious belonging, and inter faith encounter: Some survey findings from East London
Mainstream religion in contemporary middle England has been described as a matter of believing without belonging (Davie, 1994). In multi‐ethnic inner city districts, however, religious belonging remains significant; indeed it is probably growing as a key dimension of ethnic and communal identity. Recent survey research in East London offers empirical evidence for this thesis and shows that both fundamentalist proselytising forms of religion and p…
The Career of Status Crystallisation: A Sociological Odyssey
Since it was first introduced half a century ago, Status Crystallization [SC] which is also know as Status Incongruence, Consistency or Inconsistency has been used in over 200 research papers. Many have accepted it and treated it as a potentially useful substantive construct and even generalized it somewhat. A few have tried to forge theoretical links between it and such related concepts as socialization and mobility. A third group has taken a mo…
Self-Actualization and Retrospective Reports of Parent-Child Relationships among College Females
The relationship between self-actualization and retrospective perceptions of parental child-rearing attitudes and behaviors was investigated. 20 high and 20 low self-actualizing college-aged females, pre-selected on the basis of their scores on Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory, were compared on Schaefer's Children's Reports of Parental Behavior Inventory. As predicted, high self-actualizing subjects scored significantly higher than low s…
Kids and Coppers
"Blocking "Blockade: Partisan Protest, Popular Debate, and Encapsulated Texts
In 1938 United Artists released Blockade (produced by Walter Wanger, directed by William Dieterle), considered by press of that day to be the first fiction film to deal at all seriously with Spanish Civil War.' Hollywood generally avoided directly dealing with this struggle while it was ongoing (1936-1939), principally because of potential to offend either Loyalist or Franco supporters.2 But offend Blockade did. Blockade managed to outrage simult…
The Career of Status Crystallisation: A Sociological Odyssey
Since it was first introduced half a century ago, Status Crystallization [SC] which is also know as Status Incongruence, Consistency or Inconsistency has been used in over 200 research papers. Many have accepted it and treated it as a potentially useful substantive construct and even generalized it somewhat. A few have tried to forge theoretical links between it and such related concepts as socialization and mobility. A third group has taken a mo…
Approaches to the historical archaeology of Mexico, Central & South America
This volume brings together for the first time a collection of articles by scholars working in the field of historical archaeology in Mexico, Central, and South America. Even though archaeologists have conducted investigations on historical sites in Latin America for many years, international borders have often limited interaction among researchers and the exchange of pertinent literature among interested readers. As a result, there has been litt…
Ethnicity, religious belonging, and inter faith encounter: Some survey findings from East London
Mainstream religion in contemporary middle England has been described as a matter of believing without belonging (Davie, 1994). In multi‐ethnic inner city districts, however, religious belonging remains significant; indeed it is probably growing as a key dimension of ethnic and communal identity. Recent survey research in East London offers empirical evidence for this thesis and shows that both fundamentalist proselytising forms of religion and p…
Criminal Justice in the Old World and the New
Goffman and Social Organization Studies in Sociological Legacy. London and New York: Routledge, 1999
Technologies of Realism? Ethnographic Uses of Photography and Film
Religion, and the rise of social capitalism: The faith communities in community development and urban regeneration in England
At the dawn of a new century and millennium many people, community development practitioners included, tend to take stock of their past and articulate their hopes and fears for the future. If the moment is invested with a degree of spiritual significance as it has been by Christian believers and others alike, it is appropriate to review the interaction of faith, values and community work. In this paper based on research commissioned by the UK gov…
Goffman and Social Organization: Studies of a Sociological Legacy
1. Introduction: Interpreting Goffman's Sociological Legacy Greg Smith 2. Erving Goffman: What is a Life? The Uneasy Making of An Intellectual Biography Yves Winkin 3. Fine Romances: Two Arrangements Between the Sexes in Public Places Carol Brooks Gardner 4. Role Distance and the Negational Self James J. Chriss 5. Sundered Selves: Mental Illness and the Interaction Order in the Work of Erving Goffman William Gronfein 6. Ethnographic Coats and Ten…
Streisand Shops the Museum Store Consuming Art on Television
The author examines the tensions between high and low culture on display in two 1960s Barbra Streisand television specials. The programs situate both the art museum and the department store as sites for participational consumption by women. Key Words: Art museumBarbra Streisandcommoditydepartment storemedia literacytelevision special Additional informationNotes on contributorsGreg M. Smith GREG M. SMITH is an assistant professor in the Department…
Racing against Time? Aspects of the Temporal Organization of the Runner's World
Drawing on documentary sources and participant observation, I seek to specify salient temporal characteristics of the social world of running. Extant analyses seem preoccupied with criticizing running temporality for reproducing, in a sporting context, those Taylorized, alienating beliefs and oppressive practices typical of capitalist sites of production. A different point of departure, runners' own understandings, shows that temporal considerati…
Implicit Religion and Faith-based Urban Regeneration
An examination of the current literature in urban regeneration reveals a growing amount of policy-related research about the potential and actual contribution of faith communities and religious organisations to social welfare, community cohesion and economic and community development. However, there appears to be little or no analysis of the values and theologies that underlie the action in different faith traditions. This article, based on recen…
Faith in community and communities of faith? government rhetoric and religious identity in Urban Britain
This paper examines the concept of community and the discourse around it in the context of the religious diversity in urban areas in England. Sociology has a long history of working with, deconstructing, and at times rejecting the usefulness of the term ‘community’ and many scholars have in the context of postmodernity preferred to talk about processes of identity formation and networking. Constructions of identity in which faith affiliation play…
Religious Identities, Social Networks and the Power of Information: Fieldwork Issues in Mapping Religious Diversity in London
The work of Manuel Castells is perhaps the most comprehensive treatment of contemporary urban society covering urban geography, urban social movements, the power of identity, the rise of the network society and the significance of information technologies at a global level. Other sociologists such as Robertson and Beyer have developed theories of globalization and glocalization with particular reference to religion, while scholars in the discipli…
Erving Goffman
Decades after his death, the figure of Erving Goffman (1922–82) continues to fascinate. Perhaps the best-known sociologist of the second half of the twentieth century, Goffman was an unquestionably significant thinker whose reputation extended well beyond his parent discipline. A host of concepts irrevocably linked to Goffman's name – such as 'presentation of self', 'total institutions', 'stigma', 'impression management' and 'passing' – are now s…
Erving Goffman (Key Sociologists)
The Tangled Web of Taliban and Associated Movements
Following the devastating terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,worldwide attention became focused on the Taliban and al-Qaida forcesin Afghanistan. Prior to the attacks, many people had never heard of the Taliban or their shar'ia-law style of government. Since 2001, manysplinter groups have formed in response to the continual United Statespresence in the region. Today, the term Taliban has been used to envelop several groups such as the Tehrik…
Erving Goffman
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Person The Social Context The Intellectual Context The Work Impact and Assessment Bibliography
Red Skelton, The Crack‐up, and the Quick‐change
Flu frames
This article investigates how the frame concept was used in media studies of the 2009 flu pandemic representation. It examines how frame (or framing) analysis has illuminated sociological features of these depictions and how the frame concept facilitated an analytic understanding of media representations. The article first outlines the principal uses of the concept in the social sciences. It then examines the approach and findings of empirical st…
Introducing Cultural Studies
A rapidly changing world – in part driven by huge transformations in technology and mobility - means we all encounter shifting cultures, and new cultural and social interactions daily. Powerful forces such as consumption and globalization exert an enormous influence on all walks and levels of life across both space and time. Cultural Studies remains at the vanguard of consideration of these issues. This completely revised second edition of Introd…
Interactionism, Symbolic
Psychological type and the training relationship: An empirical study among curates and training incumbents
This study draws on Jungian psychological type theory to illuminate the relationship between curates and training incumbents. During a three-day residential programme organised by an Anglican Diocese in England, 11 curate–incumbent pairs (and one additional incumbent) completed the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator and participated in four workshops organised, respectively, according to their scores recorded on the orientations (extraversion and introv…
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