Dennis Smith
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3659541 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dennis Smith |
| PRENOMES | Dennis |
| SOBRENOME | Smith |
| ASSINATURA | SMITH D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0194-9926 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 84 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 207 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1962 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Planning for Rural Broadband
High-speed broadband internet is a necessary utility. However, internet service providers are often unwilling to take on the costs of serving rural areas. Federal investments to expand rural broadband have gone underutilized due to insufficient community awareness and planning practices. We explore university–community broadband planning in two rural Florida counties to demonstrate where partnership and local efforts have enabled constructive dis…
Transportation system performance capabilities for vulnerable populations
A critical component of transportation systems' resilience is their capability of withstanding disruptions and adapting to changing conditions to safely meet the demands of the users pre-, peri-, and post-disasters. Historically, disruptions from natural hazards are more consequential, with more negative disproportionate impacts on older adults, ethnic minority groups, rural, and disabled populations. Incorporating special users' needs as a core …
Capitalist Democracy on Trial
First published in 1990, Capitalist Democracy on Trial explores the long transatlantic debate on capitalist democracy. It examines the conflicting verdicts of writers and politicians in the USA and Europe. The first section focuses on democracy and the rise of big business. It discusses the views of Tocqueville, Mill, Carnegie, Chamberlain, Bryce, Ostrogorski, Veblen and Hobson. The second section covers capitalism and the rise of ‘big government…
How Do Leading Scholars from Central-Eastern Europe Assess the State of Their Region Post-1989
Symbols are different from signs.The latter merely point the way to go.Symbols are more pressing.They can stir you out of your seat, get you on your feet and put you on the march.Every successful agitator or leader has a handy pack of symbols in their briefcase to wave around their head when addressing an audience.Evidently, symbols can be dangerous.Their typical mix of accommodating ambiguity and nagging urgency gives them multiple capacities -n…
Reflections of a journal editor
The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Bauman. An Appreciation of Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017)
Zygmunt Bauman was a man of action, a brilliant persuader, and a stern moralist. As a young communist he acted with sincerity on the maxim that an omelette cannot be made without breaking eggs. He was shocked to discover, twice, in 1953 and 1968, that he was one of the eggs being broken. This paper reviews his subsequent migration West and his career as a public intellectual in the light of these early experiences. His attempt to forge a Marxist …
Moore Jr, Barrington (1913–2005)
The Return of Historical Sociology
The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant 1789-1914 Immanuel Wallerstein, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2011, £47.95, paper £21.95, 377pp. Power in the 21st Century: Conversations with John A. Hall Michael Mann, Polity, Cambridge, 2011, £50.00, paper £14.99, 179pp. The Sources of Social Power, Volume 3: Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945 Michael Mann, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012, £62.00, paper £2…
Dialogue and discipline
Displacement and reconciliation
Explosive City Growth in the Modern World-System
This is an empirical quantitative study that uses urban demographic data to identify economic change in cities. Unlike previous demographic studies, a strong theoretical framework is provided for the analysis. The research is designed and interpreted through Jacobs's theory of the city as economic process within the framework of Wallerstein's modern world-system. This is the first time Jacobs's theory has been subject to systematic inquiry over b…
Social Fluidity and Social Displacement
The recent prominence of analyses emphasising social fluidity within the social sciences has obscured the continuing relevance of the dynamics of social displacement. This paper contrasts the two approaches, traces their different trajectories as they have permeated sociology and adjacent disciplines, and, finally, proposes a research agenda investigating social displacement processes in the context of globalization
The Chicago School of Sociology
Globalization, Degradation and the Dynamics of Humiliation
Our analysis of how sociologists should respond to social degradation should take into account the way humiliation drives those who have suffered degradation to anger and action on their own account. Cycles of fear, revenge and victimization are liable to result from the moments of defeat, relegation and exclusion brought by humiliation processes. Globalization has produced these conditions not simply through the logic of the market but also thro…
Norbert Elias and the Art of Dialogue
Transnationality and the Trans-Siberian Express
The Civilized Organization
This book brings a major new resource to organization studies: the work of Norbert Elias. By applying his ideas in a critical but sympathetic way, the authors provide a new perspective on the never-ending stream of management fads and fashions. Standing back and taking a more detached perspective, inspired by the work of Norbert Elias (1897-1990), it becomes clear that many 'new' types of organizations are often variations on an old theme.Elias g…
Zygmunt Bauman
Preface. Part I: Setting the Agenda: . 1. Living Without a Guidebook. 2. No Easy Choices. 3. Who is Zygmunt Bauman?. 4. The Power of the Past. Part II: The Road to Postmodernity: . 5. The Road to the West. 6. The Road to Utopia. 7. The Road to the Berlin Wall. 8. The Trilogy. 9. Baumana s Vision of Modernity and Postmodernity. Part III: Dialogue: . 10. Between Critical Theory and Post--Structuralism. The ambivalence of criticism. 11. A Correspond…
Theodore Abel. The Columbia Circle of Scholars. Selections from the Journal (1930-1957)
Norbert Elias and Modern Social Theory
Having fled Germany in the 1930s, Norbert Elias achieved fame in later life because of his insights into social and political change. This text traces his importance to sociology and contrasts his work with other theorists and social scientists
Organizations and Humiliation
Elias's approach to the civilizing process is discussed and some of its limitations outlined. An alternative approach focusing upon humiliation is introduced. The paper argues that humiliation processes play an important part in organizations and in the broader social environment in which they are embedded. It is also claimed that to understand humiliation it is necessary to grasp its relationship to hierarchy, history and human rights. That mean…
The Prisoner and the Fisherman
Foucault and Elias are both preoccupied with three main forms of human existence. The first is rational self-mastery under conditions permitting a significant degree of autonomy. The second is centralized authoritarian control in conditions of heteronomy. The third is an unstable situation where control is absent or intermittent both societally and at the level of the personality. The different ways Elias and Foucault apply these ideas will be ex…
Political culture and the culture of historians
It is over thirty years since E.P. Thompson's The Making of the Working Class (1963) pushed culture – seen as an active process of coping with and shaping collective experience – higher up the historians' agenda. The waves made by the late twentieth-century ‘turns’ towards culture and language are still being felt. This highly diverse movement has also been shaped by theorists such as Foucault and Bourdieu, whom Thompson would undoubtedly have re…
National Elites and Transnational Discourses in the Balkan War
This article is based upon a survey of the establishment press in France, Germany and the UK during the Balkan war of 1999. The sources are Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Le Monde and the Financial Times. The objective is to see what their reportage reveals about the political agenda of the various elite readerships and their perceptions of the international order. Our findings indicate that there has been a degree of synchronization in the focu…
Making Europe—Processes of Europe-Formation since 1945
Dennis Smith argues that the development of the European polity that has become the European Union has been shaped by social processes similar in many respects to those analysed by Norbert Elias in The Court Society and The Civilizing Process. However, these processes have occurred at the supra-state level whereas Elias described them as they occurred at the level of the developing national state, especially during the sixteenth and seventeenth c…
The Chicago School
The Chicago School of Sociology has sometimes been applauded for the originality and special insights of its practitioners as pioneers of a new professional discipline. By contrast, this book emphasis
Effects of Telephone Canvassing on Turnout and Preferences
Journal Article Effects of Telephone Canvassing on Turnout and Preferences: A Field Experiment Get access WILLIAM C. ADAMS, WILLIAM C. ADAMS William C. Adams is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at George Washington University. Dennis J. Smith is President of Smith, Berlin & Associates (formerly Smith, Bloomingdale & Hees), Washington, D.C. Hugh LeBlanc, Robert Darcy, Susan Carroll, Mike Monheit, and Ellen Weiser offered helpful commen…
The rise of historical sociology
The Civilizing Process and The History of Sexuality
Explosive City Growth in the Modern World-System
This is an empirical quantitative study that uses urban demographic data to identify economic change in cities. Unlike previous demographic studies, a strong theoretical framework is provided for the analysis. The research is designed and interpreted through Jacobs's theory of the city as economic process within the framework of Wallerstein's modern world-system. This is the first time Jacobs's theory has been subject to systematic inquiry over b…
Zygmunt Bauman
Preface. Part I: Setting the Agenda: . 1. Living Without a Guidebook. 2. No Easy Choices. 3. Who is Zygmunt Bauman?. 4. The Power of the Past. Part II: The Road to Postmodernity: . 5. The Road to the West. 6. The Road to Utopia. 7. The Road to the Berlin Wall. 8. The Trilogy. 9. Baumana s Vision of Modernity and Postmodernity. Part III: Dialogue: . 10. Between Critical Theory and Post--Structuralism. The ambivalence of criticism. 11. A Correspond…
Organizations and Humiliation
Elias's approach to the civilizing process is discussed and some of its limitations outlined. An alternative approach focusing upon humiliation is introduced. The paper argues that humiliation processes play an important part in organizations and in the broader social environment in which they are embedded. It is also claimed that to understand humiliation it is necessary to grasp its relationship to hierarchy, history and human rights. That mean…
The Rise of Historical Sociology
Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman has used his 'outsider' position to explore the defining boundaries of our world and help shape a discourse which allows communication across these boundaries. In this spirit he has investigated: sociology and culture; capitalism, socialism and class; and modernity and postmodernity. Bauman has argued for an emancipatory sociology which takes full account of what ought and ought not to be, what human beings hope for and fear, and t…
The Rise of Historical Sociology
Marcuse
National Elites and Transnational Discourses in the Balkan War
This article is based upon a survey of the establishment press in France, Germany and the UK during the Balkan war of 1999. The sources are Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Le Monde and the Financial Times. The objective is to see what their reportage reveals about the political agenda of the various elite readerships and their perceptions of the international order. Our findings indicate that there has been a degree of synchronization in the focu…
Codes, Paradigms and Folk Norms
The erosion of the established collection mode in English education is producing a variety of unstable structural outcomes. All of these outcomes are conditioned by the progressive replacement of sponsorship by a covert contest pattern of educational selection. In the wake of experiments with integrated curricula, the most likely emergent pattern of educational transmission is a form of collection characterized by increased democratic representat…
Anthony Giddens and the Liberal Tradition
Christopher G. A. Bryant and David Jary's «Anthony Giddens : Critical Assessments» provides a useful overview of critical scholarship on Giddens. It also stimulates reflections on the significance of Giddens's career and writings. The book illustrates the unifying effect Giddens's work has had within the notoriously multi-paradigmatic arena of the social sciences by providing a common reference point for both disciples and critics. For his part, …
Dialogue and discipline
Displacement and reconciliation
Social Fluidity and Social Displacement
The recent prominence of analyses emphasising social fluidity within the social sciences has obscured the continuing relevance of the dynamics of social displacement. This paper contrasts the two approaches, traces their different trajectories as they have permeated sociology and adjacent disciplines, and, finally, proposes a research agenda investigating social displacement processes in the context of globalization
Globalization, Degradation and the Dynamics of Humiliation
Our analysis of how sociologists should respond to social degradation should take into account the way humiliation drives those who have suffered degradation to anger and action on their own account. Cycles of fear, revenge and victimization are liable to result from the moments of defeat, relegation and exclusion brought by humiliation processes. Globalization has produced these conditions not simply through the logic of the market but also thro…
Before and afterthe day after
Over 80 million Americans watched The Day After, ABC's controversial drama about the horror and devastation of nuclear war. Many people expected a compelling indictment of the folly of the arms race that could create a significant ‐ shift in public attitudes. On the evening of the broadcast, researchers conducted random nationwide telephone surveys both before and after the broadcast of The Day After. In addition to examining attitudinal changes,…
Education, Opportunity, and Social Inequality
The Return of Historical Sociology
The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant 1789-1914 Immanuel Wallerstein, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2011, £47.95, paper £21.95, 377pp. Power in the 21st Century: Conversations with John A. Hall Michael Mann, Polity, Cambridge, 2011, £50.00, paper £14.99, 179pp. The Sources of Social Power, Volume 3: Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945 Michael Mann, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012, £62.00, paper £2…
Norbert Elias and the Art of Dialogue
The Rise of Historical Sociology
Journal Article The Rise of Historical Sociology. By Dennis Smith. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. xii + 231 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-87722-919-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-87722920-1.) Get access Rick Tilman Rick Tilman University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 350–351, https://doi.org/10.2307/207985…
Paternalism, craft and organizational rationality 1830–1930
This paper reflects on aspects of industrial and political history in Birmingham from the 1830s to the 1930s. Its object is to consider the strategies adopted by capital and labour in response to the challenges posed by successive phases of capitalist industrialization, urbanization and bureau-cratization. A convenient way to begin is by responding critically to the approach exemplified by the work of Richard Price and Clive Behagg. Although ther…
History, Geography and Sociology
High School Record and College Board Scores as Predictors of Success in a Liberal Arts Program During the Freshman Year of College
Education, Opportunity, and Social Inequality
Education in Crisis
Codes, Paradigms and Folk Norms
The erosion of the established collection mode in English education is producing a variety of unstable structural outcomes. All of these outcomes are conditioned by the progressive replacement of sponsorship by a covert contest pattern of educational selection. In the wake of experiments with integrated curricula, the most likely emergent pattern of educational transmission is a form of collection characterized by increased democratic representat…
Domination and Containment
This paper is built upon the assumption that modernization consists of processes of structural transformation which tend to increase both the resource-producing or energy-producing capacity of a social configuration and the extent to which this capacity may be realized and coordinated by strategic elites. There are a number of qualifications. For example, modernization involves an increase in resources or energy producedand/oran increase in the e…
Extended Reviews
Effects of Telephone Canvassing on Turnout and Preferences
Journal Article Effects of Telephone Canvassing on Turnout and Preferences: A Field Experiment Get access WILLIAM C. ADAMS, WILLIAM C. ADAMS William C. Adams is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at George Washington University. Dennis J. Smith is President of Smith, Berlin & Associates (formerly Smith, Bloomingdale & Hees), Washington, D.C. Hugh LeBlanc, Robert Darcy, Susan Carroll, Mike Monheit, and Ellen Weiser offered helpful commen…
Put not your trust in Princes' — A Commentary upon Anthony Giddens and the Absolute State
Social History and Sociology - More Than Just Good Friends
Shorter Notices
Conflict and Compromise
Conflict and Compromise
Discovering Facts and Values
It is difficult to do justice to Barrington Moore's approach to historical sociology within the limiting confines of a chapter. One of the reasons for this is that the emphases within Moore's work have changed, albeit within the context of certain abiding concerns, in successive books published during a period of over three decades. In Soviet Politics (1950), for example, functionalist styles of reasoning are drawn upon. Moore discusses the restr…
Shorter Notices
Discipline
An attitude survey based on a review of psychological literature on discipline was constructed and administered to public school teachers. Differences in teachers' agreement with the psychologists' statements by level taught and years of experience were analyzed by a 2 × 2 multivariate analysis of variance. No main effects or interactions were observed. Elementary teachers with the least teaching experience registered strongest agreements with th…
Barrington Moore, Jr
Conflict and Compromise
First published in 1982, this study explores the dynamics of class formation during the vital decades between 1830 and 1914, when a rising urban industrial order was developing in complex interdependence with a declining rural agrarian order. The book follows the divergent paths of two cities - Birmingham and Sheffield – in their social development. These paths reflect the complex process of conflict and compromise as the ‘old’ order was graduall…
Conflict and Compromise
Morality and method in the work of Barrington Moore
Scholars and Radicals
Before and afterthe day after
Over 80 million Americans watched The Day After, ABC's controversial drama about the horror and devastation of nuclear war. Many people expected a compelling indictment of the folly of the arms race that could create a significant ‐ shift in public attitudes. On the evening of the broadcast, researchers conducted random nationwide telephone surveys both before and after the broadcast of The Day After. In addition to examining attitudinal changes,…
William Ogburn
Louis Wirth, as has been seen, was deeply concerned with the issues posed by size and space as aspects of modern society. By contrast, William Ogburn was fascinated by speed and time. His best-known work is Social Change which originally appeared in 1922. At the time this book was published Ogburn was a sociology professor at Columbia University, the institution which he had earlier attended while carrying out doctoral research under the guidance…
Robert Park
Robert Park, Albion Small and W. I. Thomas represented three different ways in which sociology and the ‘real world’ could be related to each other. Albion Small intended that sociology should develop a body of rational lore regarding the means to improve American democracy and, by implication, human society in general. His task and that of his colleagues was, he believed, to persuade Americans of the usefulness of this new discipline which could …
The Chicago Tradition and its Critics
In this book I explore some aspects of the interplay between American sociology, American liberalism and American capitalism. The writings of members of the Chicago school provide a rich source of evidence upon which I draw selectively. Before outlining the argument and justifying the basis of my selection it will be useful to provide a potted history of Chicago sociology.
From Park to Parsons
Robert Park retired from the Chicago sociology department in 1934. Soon after he left, Chicago lost its position of dominance within the profession. The special influence of Albion Small’s brain-child, the American Journal of Sociology , was undermined during the annual meeting of the American Sociological Society at New York in December 1935. The members decided by a majority of about 2 to 1 that the American Journal of Sociology , which was und…
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