Charles W. Smith
Professor

Office : Powdermaker Hall 252L Telephone : (718) 997-2840 Fax : (718) 997-2820 Email : Charles.Smith@qc.cuny.edu Charles W. Smith is presently Professor in the sociology department at Queens College, CUNY and a member of the doctoral program in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate School. He is active in numerous professional and civic/community organizations. Education Academic Positions Honors Grants & Awards Books Articles Reviews

Education:

Wesleyan University: Middletown, Conn.
Major-Philosophy, 1956-1960: A.B.-1960.
Harvard University: Cambridge, Mass.
Field-Philosophy, 1960-1961.
Brandeis University: Waltham, Mass.
Field-Sociology, 1961-1966: M.A.-1963; Ph.D.-1966.

Academic Positions:

1997- 2000: Chair: Department of Sociology; Queens College, CUNY.
1996-1997: Special Assistant to the President for Special Projects: Queens College, CUNY.
1992-1996: Dean of Faculty for the Social Sciences: Queens College, CUNY.
1991-1992: Acting Dean of Faculty for the Social Sciences: Queens College, CUNY.
1988-1991: Chair: Department of Sociology; Queens College, CUNY.
1987-1988: Visiting Scholar: Wesleyan University.
1986-present: Graduate Faculty; Graduate Center, CUNY.
1983-present: Professor of Sociology; Queens College, CUNY.
1979-1982: Associate Professor of Sociology; Queens College, CUNY.
1979-1980: Visiting Scholar: Nuffield College, Oxford.
1968-1971: Assistant Chair: Department of Sociology; Queens College, CUNY.
19661978: Assistant Professor of Sociology; Queens College, CUNY.
19651966: Lecturer in Sociology; Queens College, CUNY.
19641965: Instructor in Sociology; Simmons College.
19631964: Teaching Assistant; Brandeis University.

Academic and Professional Honors and Activities:

Editor: Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 1983-present.
Evaluator for FIPSE, Department of Education, 1994-1997.
Evaluator of Diversity Proposals for AAU&C, 1994-1997
Referee for various journals including ASQ, ASR, Contemporary Sociology, Qualitative Sociology, 1965-present.
Associate Editor: Marketplace Exchange, 1985-1996.
Associate Editor: Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 1977-1983.
Various Committees and Chairs: American Sociological Association, Eastern Sociological Society, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics since 1965 including: Executive Committee, ESS: 1996-1999; Executive Committee, ASA Theory Section: 1992-1995; Chair: Nominating Committee of the ASA Theory Section: 1992; Board: S.A.S.E., 1991-1994; Chair: ASA Committee on Professional Standards: 1972; Chair: ESS Planning Committee.
Phi Beta Kappa, Degree with Honors, Degree with Distinction, Philosophy Prize: Wesleyan University.
Graduate Fellowship in Philosophy: Harvard University, 1960-1961.
Graduate Fellowship in Sociology: Brandeis University, 1962-1965.

Academic Grants and Awards:

Faculty Research Award Grant: C.U.N.Y.: E-Commerce: The Social Reconstruction of Economic Rules and Values, 2000-2001.
Ford Foundation: Urban Diversity Initiative Grant: 1996-1999.
F.I.P.S.E., Department of Education "Faculty Research Mentors:" 1993-1996.
Ford Foundation: Education Diversity Grant: 1991-1993.
Faculty Research Award Grant: C.U.N.Y.: Maintaining Order and Meaning: A Sociological Critique of Referees and Umpires, 1990-1992.
Faculty Research Award Grant; C.U.N.Y.: Auctions: An Ethnographic Study, 1983-1985.(Renewed as expanded and entitled "Auctions: A Sociological Paradigm," 1986-1989.)
Mellon Fellow: Queens College, C.U.N.Y.; 1980-1981, 1981-1982.
Stock Market Ideologies: Grant from Weintraub Foundation: 1975-1976.
N.S.F. Education and Sociology Institute: 1974-1975; 1975-1976.
Faculty Research Award Grant; C.U.N.Y.: The Rules of The Game: An Experimental Study, 1971=1972.

Publications:

Books & Monographs:

Success and Survival on Wall Street	Market Values In American Higher Education	The Critique of Sociological Reasoning: An Essay in Philosophic Sociology	The Mind of the Market: A Study of Stock Market Philosophies	Auctions: The Social Construction of Value	Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Editor

Success and Survival on Wall Street: Understanding the Mind of the Market, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1999.
Market Values in American Education: The Pitfalls and Promises., Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, forthcoming 2000.
Auctions: The Social Construction of Values, New York: Free Press, 1989. (Paperback edition: University of California Press; 1990.)
The Mind of the Market: A Study of Stock Market Philosophies, Their Uses and Implications, Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1981. (Paperback edition by Harper and Row Colophon, 1983.)
Critique of Sociological Reasoning: An Essay in Philosophic Sociology, Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers and Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1979. Japanese edition with new introduction under title Shakaigakuteki Risei Hihan, translated by Kohkichi Shoji, Shin'yosha, Tokyo, 1982.
Social Units and Social Collectivities: A Theoretical Study, University Microfilms Ann Arbor, 1966.

Articles & Chapters:

“Financial Edgework: Trading in Market Currents” in Edgework: The Sociology of Risk Taking, edited by Steven Lyng. London and New York: Routledge, 2005.

“Auctions” entry in Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, edited by J. Beckert and M. Zafirovski. London: Routledge, 2005.

“Globalization, Higher Education and Markets” in Globalization and Higher Education, edited by Jaishree Kak Odin; Peter T Manicas. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004.

“Auctions” entry in Dictionary of American History, edited by Stanley I. Kutler. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002.

“Reflections on Serge Moscovici: Social Representations and Reality” in Penser la vie, le social,
la nature: Melanges en l’hooeur de Serge Moscovici, edited by Fabrice Buschini et Nikos Kalampalikis. Paris: MSH, 2001.
"The Ontological Status of Ideations: A Continuing Issue," Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Vol. 27, No. 2/3 (1997).
"A Closet Realist" in Science, Mind and Art edited by K. Gavroglu et al. Netherlands: KluwerAcademic Publishers 1995.
"Auctions: From Walrus to the Real World" in Explorations in Economic Sociology: Papers from the Russell Sage Seminar, 1990-1991 edited by Richard Swedberg, New York: Russell Sage, 1993.
"The New Realism and the Human Sciences: Some Research Implications" in Realism and Social Research ed. by Roy Bhaskar, London: Harvester, 1993.
"The Practice and Practicality of Maintaining the Theoretical," Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Vol. 20, No. 4 (1990).
"The Realism of the Symbolic" in Harré and His Critics: Essays in Honor of Rom Harré with his Commentary on Them, edited Roy Bhaskar, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.
"The Qualitative Significance of Quantitative Representation" in The Qualitative-Quantitative Distinction in Social Sciences, edited by Barry Glassner and Jonathan D. Moreno. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1989.
"A Case Study of Structuration: The Pure Bred Beef Business," Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Vol. 13, No. 1 (1983).
"On the Sociology of Mind" in Explaining Human Behavior, edited by Paul Secord, Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, 1982.
"Sociological Insight and Imagination", Social Studies, Vol. 73, No. 5. (September/October, 1982).
"Performance and Negotiation: A Case Study of a Wrestling Referee", Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 5, No.1, (1982). Reprinted in 5th edition of Down to Earth Sociology ed. James Henslin, Free Press, New York, 1985; and 6th edition, 1988.
"Proposal for Graduate Training", The American Sociologist, May, 1972.
"Sociology and Subjective Phenomena", Bucknell Review, Vol. XVII, No. 2, (May, 1969).
"Sociology Today and Tomorrow", Ararat, Winter, 1967.

Reviews & Academic Presentations:

Speculative Management: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change.By Dan Krier

The Age of Chance: Gambling in Western Culture. By Gerda Reith. Contemporary Sociology, 32: 3 (May, 2003).

Capitalism and Social Progress. By Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder. Contemporary Sociology, 31: 5 (September, 2002).

“Understanding Real Markets: Confronting Old Falacies, Emerging Possibilities and Imminent Challenges” International Workshop: The Culture(s) of Financial Markets, University of Bielefeld, Germany: Novemebr 10-11, 2000.

"What is Social Theory?" Edited by Alan Sica. Contemporary Sociology, 28(5): 625-627 (1999).
"Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity: Beyond the New Institutional Economics of Ethnic Trading Networks, Contract Law, and Gift Exchange". By Janet Tai Landa. Contemporary Sociology, (March, 1996).
"Inflation of Symbols: Loss of Values in American Culture". By Orrin E. Klapp. American Journal of Sociology, (September, 1992).
"Charismatic Capitalism". By Nicole Woolsey Biggart. American Journal of Sociology (September, 1991).
"Texts of Identity" edited by John Shotter and Kenneth Gergen, Contemporary Sociology, 19:1 (January, 1990).
"Rhetoric in the Human Sciences" edited by Herbert W. Simons, Contemporary Sociology, 19:1 (January, 1990).
"Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science", by Dean Keith Simonton, Contemporary Sociology, 18:2 (March, 1989).
"New Philosophies of Social Science: Realism, Hermeneutics and Critical Theory" by William Outhwaite,
Socialism and Democracy , (Spring/Summer, 1989).
"Power and Marxist Theory" by Jeffrey C. Isaac, Socialism and Democracy (Fall/Winter, 1988).
"Auction Drama: Its Importance and Meaning" Qualitative Research Conference: Interactionist Research:
University of Windsor, May, 1988.
"The Economic Mind: The Social Psychology of Economic Behavior" by Adrian Furnham and Alan Lewis, Contemporary Sociology, 16:5 (September, 1987).
"The Auction Paradigm: An Ethnographically Grounded Critique of the Microeconomic Model" Wesleyan University, November, 1987.
"The Auction: A Sociological Process!?!" Qualitative Research Conference: University of Waterloo, May, 1986.
"Habermas and Modernity ed". Richard J. Bernstein, Contemporary Sociology, 15:5 (September, 1986).
"The Hermeneutic Reader ed." Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, Contemporary Sociology, 15:5 (September, 1986).
"Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Between Phenomenology and Structuralism" by James Schmidt, Contemporary Sociology, 15:5 (September, 1986).
The Consensus-Conflict Debate: Form and Content in Social Theories by Thomas J. Bernard, Qualitative Sociology 8:2 (1985).
"The Social Structure and Meaning of Auctions," A.S.A. Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 1984.
"Essential Interactionism: On the Intelligibility of Prejudice" by Barry Glassner, Social Science Quarterly, (Winter, 1983).
"Confrontation and the Rules of the Game: An Experimental Study," 1975.
"Subjective Recruitment, The Use of Material Incentives, and Demand Characteristics: An Experimental Note," 1975.
"Role Conflict, Mechanisms of Resolution, and Cooperation," 1975.
"Sociology's Moral Dilemma: Some Comments Stimulated by the A.S.A. Preamble and Code of Ethics," A.S.A. Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., August, 1970.
"Gambling and Gaming," Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bennington, Vermont, May, 1970.
"Phenomenology of Willing and Motivation" by Alexander Pfander, ASR, August, 1968.
"Readings on Social Change" by Wilbert E. Moore and Robert M. Cook, ASR, August, 1967.