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Dr Daniel Smith
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Rwy'n gymdeithaswr diwylliannol sydd â diddordeb yn y ffyrdd y mae ffurfiau cymdeithasol a diwylliannol yn trawsnewid ac yn cadw eu hunain mewn cyd-destunau newydd a newidiol.
Yn The Fall and Rise of the English Upper-Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital since 1945 (2022) rwy'n archwilio'r rôl y mae byd-olwg traddodiadol, wedi'i fynegi gan aelodau o'r dosbarth uwch hanesyddol, wedi'i chwarae yng nghymdeithas Prydain yng nghysgod ei dirywiad imperialaidd ac economaidd yn yr ugeinfed ganrif. Gan leoli'r gweledigaethau traddodiadol hyn ochr yn ochr â ffantasïau Prydain ar ôl Brexit o adfywiad economaidd byd-eang a dychwelyd cymdeithasol-ddiwylliannol i dir gwyrdd a dymunol, rwy'n archwilio sefydliadau Sefydlu Prydain, ystadau ei bonedd tir a'i aristocratiaeth, hyd at awydd am gynnyrch hiraethus a gynrychiolir gyda symbolaeth fugeiliol neu gyn-fodern. Dangosir bod y sefydliadau a'r gweithgareddau hyn yn chwarae rhan ganolog wrth leoli perthynas gymdeithasol, diwylliannol a gwleidyddol. Yn hanfodol, mae'r sefydliadau a'r gweithgareddau hyn yn dibynnu ar fath o aelodaeth sy'n seiliedig ar idiom perthnasol sy'n canolbwyntio ar etifeddiaeth a disgyniad: pwy sy'n etifeddu'r tai braint, etifeddu Lloegr.
Yn Elites, Race and Nationhood: The Branded Gentry edrychais ar sut mae pobl ifanc, 'gwyn' yn hytrach na phobl dosbarth canol uwch yn canolbwyntio eu hunain at dirweddau newidiol o gyfoeth a braint, a sut mae corfforaethau brand yn dod i drawsnewid ac ail-gyfansoddi ffurfiau traddodiadol o gymdeithas ac unigryw elitaidd.
Yn Comedy & Critique rwy'n archwilio'r defnydd o hiwmor wrth lunio sensitifrwydd gwleidyddol y Chwith Newydd. Rwy'n archwilio yn y gwaith hwn y ffordd y mae'r ffurf stand-yp - yr archwiliad doniol, solipsistaidd o hunan a hunaniaeth - yn dod yn fynegiant synhwyrol o wleidyddiaeth y Chwith Newydd, a'r cyfyngiadau sydd gan hyn ar gyfer dulliau beirniadaeth.
Yn 2025 cefais fy ngwneud yn Gymrawd y Ganolfan Cymdeithaseg Ddiwylliannol ym Mhrifysgol Yale.
Cyhoeddiad
2026
- Smith, D. 2026. The Solitary Reader: The anxieties of high-culture readers in the time of culture wars. In: Tutenges, S. and Smith, P. eds. Collective Effervescence. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press. , pp.166-182.
2024
- Carter, J. and Smith, D. 2024. Romantic suffering and morality: Love for Illouz. In: Bevilacqua, E. , Longo, M. and Jacobsen, M. H. eds. Love and Sexuality in Social Theory. Routledge. , pp.254-264. (10.4324/9781003396932-18)
- Smith, D. 2024. Review of running the family firm [Book review]. British Journal of Sociology 75 (3), pp.366-368. (10.1111/1468-4446.13076)
- Smith, D. R. 2024. Rethinking elites in British sociology: Great Britain as a house-society. The Sociological Review 72 (2), pp.340-358. (10.1177/00380261231162694)
- Smith, D. R. 2024. 'Transference - is love': Love and the logical impossibility of collective life in Simmel and Lacan. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 29 , pp.36-50. (10.1057/s41282-023-00421-5)
2023
- Smith, D. 2023. The fall and rise of the English upper class: Houses, kinship and capital since 1945. Manchester University Press.
- Smith, D. 2023. The sad clown paradox: A theory of comic transcendence. International Journal of Cultural Studies 26 (1), pp.87-103. (10.1177/13678779221117176)
2022
- Smith, D. R. 2022. Reading, novels and the ethics of sociability: Taking Simmel to an independent English bookshop. In: Olave, M. A. T. ed. The Cultural Sociology of Reading: The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World. Palgrave Macmillan. , pp.361-384. (10.1007/978-3-031-13227-8_13)
2021
- Smith, D. 2021. The joke-secret and an ethics of modern individuality: From Freud to Simmel. Theory, Culture and Society 38 (5), pp.53-71. (10.1177/02632764211000121)
- Smith, D. 2021. Humour and jokes. In: Atkinson, P. et al., Sage Research Methods Foundations. SAGE(10.4135/9781526421036847997)
- Smith, D. 2021. Stand-up comedy and the comedic cult of the individual: or, the humor of James Acaster. American Journal of Cultural Sociology 9 , pp.70-91. (10.1057/s41290-019-00082-x)
2020
- Smith, D. 2020. Dividing: inequalities. In: Matthewman, S. , Curtis, B. and Mayeda, D. eds. Being Sociological. MacMillan International. , pp.49-65.
- Smith, D. R. 2020. Book review: narrative power: the struggle for human value. European Journal of Social Theory 23 (2), pp.284-288. (10.1177/1368431019880158)
- Smith, D. R. 2020. Elites. In: Payne, G. and Harrison, E. eds. Social Divisions: Inequality and Diversity in Britain. Bristol: Policy Press. , pp.175-194.
- Carter, J. and Smith, D. 2020. The transformation of love? Choice, emotional rationality and wedding gifts. In: Carter, J. and Arocha, L. eds. Romantic Relationships in a Time of 'Cold Intimacies'. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. , pp.57-79.
2019
- Smith, D. 2019. ITV's Broadchurch as a Country Noir: allegory and post-colonial nostalgia in the English countryside. [Online].Theory, Culture & Society. Available at: http://www.theoryculturesociety.org/daniel-smith-on-broadchurch-as-a-country-noir/.
2018
- Smith, D. 2018. Britain's elites: new lions, old foxes. Discover Society 2018 (2 Oct)
- Smith, D. 2018. And now for something completely different: Monty Python's 'lost sketches'. The Conversation 2018 (2 Aug)
- Smith, D. R. 2018. Comedy and critique: stand-up comedy and the professional ethos of laughter. Bristol: Bristol University Press. (10.2307/j.ctv56fgq1)
- King, A. and Smith, D. 2018. The Jack Wills crowd: towards a sociology of an elite subculture. British Journal of Sociology 69 (1), pp.44-66. (10.1111/1468-4446.12254)
- Smith, D. 2018. League of gentlemen: how some comedy saves itself from the embarrassment of ageing. The Conversation 2018 (2 Feb)
2017
- Smith, D. R. 2017. The tragedy of self in digitised popular culture: the existential consequences of digital fame on YouTube. Qualitative Research 17 (6), pp.699-714. (10.1177/1468794117700709)
- Smith, D. 2017. Ethnography amongst the British upper-middle classes: Writing about or writing a gentry class. In: SAGE Research Methods Cases. SAGE Publications. , pp.-. (10.4135/9781473998124)
- Smith, D. 2017. How Gavin & Stacey won awards by poking fun at the English-Welsh rivalry. The Conversation 2017 (12 May)
- Smith, D. 2017. The meritocracy is a smokescreen for inherited privilege. The Conversation 2017 (10 Jan)
2016
- Smith, D. 2016. Book Review: Presumed intimacy: Para-social relationships in media, society and celebrity culture. Cultural Sociology 10 (4), pp.538-539. (10.1177/1749975516672371)
- Smith, D. 2016. The upper classes in the twenty first century. Discover Society 2016 (34)
- Smith, D. R. 2016. Elites, race and nationhood: the branded gentry. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Smith, D. R. 2016. "Imagining others more complexly": celebrity and the ideology of fame among YouTube's "Nerdfighteria". Celebrity Studies 7 (3), pp.339-353. (10.1080/19392397.2015.1132174)
2015
- Smith, D. 2015. Self-heckle: Russell Kane's stand up as an example of "comedic sociology". Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization 15 (3), pp.561-579.
- O'Connor, H. , Ashton, D. and Smith, D. 2015. Norbert Elias and social theory [Book Review]. British Journal of Sociology of Education 36 , pp.474-486. (10.1080/01425692.2015.1005952)
2014
- Smith, D. R. 2014. The gent-rification of English masculinities: class, race and nation in contemporary consumption. Social Identities 20 (4-5), pp.391-406. (10.1080/13504630.2014.1002392)
- Smith, D. 2014. Charlie is so "English"-like: nationality and the branded celebrity person in the age of YouTube. Celebrity Studies 5 (3), pp.256-274. (10.1080/19392397.2014.903160)
- Smith, D. 2014. The elite ethic of fiduciarity: the heraldry of the Jack Wills brand. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization 14 (1), pp.81-107.
Adrannau llyfrau
- Smith, D. 2026. The Solitary Reader: The anxieties of high-culture readers in the time of culture wars. In: Tutenges, S. and Smith, P. eds. Collective Effervescence. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press. , pp.166-182.
- Carter, J. and Smith, D. 2024. Romantic suffering and morality: Love for Illouz. In: Bevilacqua, E. , Longo, M. and Jacobsen, M. H. eds. Love and Sexuality in Social Theory. Routledge. , pp.254-264. (10.4324/9781003396932-18)
- Smith, D. R. 2022. Reading, novels and the ethics of sociability: Taking Simmel to an independent English bookshop. In: Olave, M. A. T. ed. The Cultural Sociology of Reading: The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World. Palgrave Macmillan. , pp.361-384. (10.1007/978-3-031-13227-8_13)
- Smith, D. 2021. Humour and jokes. In: Atkinson, P. et al., Sage Research Methods Foundations. SAGE(10.4135/9781526421036847997)
- Smith, D. 2020. Dividing: inequalities. In: Matthewman, S. , Curtis, B. and Mayeda, D. eds. Being Sociological. MacMillan International. , pp.49-65.
- Smith, D. R. 2020. Elites. In: Payne, G. and Harrison, E. eds. Social Divisions: Inequality and Diversity in Britain. Bristol: Policy Press. , pp.175-194.
- Carter, J. and Smith, D. 2020. The transformation of love? Choice, emotional rationality and wedding gifts. In: Carter, J. and Arocha, L. eds. Romantic Relationships in a Time of 'Cold Intimacies'. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. , pp.57-79.
- Smith, D. 2017. Ethnography amongst the British upper-middle classes: Writing about or writing a gentry class. In: SAGE Research Methods Cases. SAGE Publications. , pp.-. (10.4135/9781473998124)
Erthyglau
- Smith, D. 2024. Review of running the family firm [Book review]. British Journal of Sociology 75 (3), pp.366-368. (10.1111/1468-4446.13076)
- Smith, D. R. 2024. Rethinking elites in British sociology: Great Britain as a house-society. The Sociological Review 72 (2), pp.340-358. (10.1177/00380261231162694)
- Smith, D. R. 2024. 'Transference - is love': Love and the logical impossibility of collective life in Simmel and Lacan. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 29 , pp.36-50. (10.1057/s41282-023-00421-5)
- Smith, D. 2023. The sad clown paradox: A theory of comic transcendence. International Journal of Cultural Studies 26 (1), pp.87-103. (10.1177/13678779221117176)
- Smith, D. 2021. The joke-secret and an ethics of modern individuality: From Freud to Simmel. Theory, Culture and Society 38 (5), pp.53-71. (10.1177/02632764211000121)
- Smith, D. 2021. Stand-up comedy and the comedic cult of the individual: or, the humor of James Acaster. American Journal of Cultural Sociology 9 , pp.70-91. (10.1057/s41290-019-00082-x)
- Smith, D. R. 2020. Book review: narrative power: the struggle for human value. European Journal of Social Theory 23 (2), pp.284-288. (10.1177/1368431019880158)
- Smith, D. 2018. Britain's elites: new lions, old foxes. Discover Society 2018 (2 Oct)
- Smith, D. 2018. And now for something completely different: Monty Python's 'lost sketches'. The Conversation 2018 (2 Aug)
- King, A. and Smith, D. 2018. The Jack Wills crowd: towards a sociology of an elite subculture. British Journal of Sociology 69 (1), pp.44-66. (10.1111/1468-4446.12254)
- Smith, D. 2018. League of gentlemen: how some comedy saves itself from the embarrassment of ageing. The Conversation 2018 (2 Feb)
- Smith, D. R. 2017. The tragedy of self in digitised popular culture: the existential consequences of digital fame on YouTube. Qualitative Research 17 (6), pp.699-714. (10.1177/1468794117700709)
- Smith, D. 2017. How Gavin & Stacey won awards by poking fun at the English-Welsh rivalry. The Conversation 2017 (12 May)
- Smith, D. 2017. The meritocracy is a smokescreen for inherited privilege. The Conversation 2017 (10 Jan)
- Smith, D. 2016. Book Review: Presumed intimacy: Para-social relationships in media, society and celebrity culture. Cultural Sociology 10 (4), pp.538-539. (10.1177/1749975516672371)
- Smith, D. 2016. The upper classes in the twenty first century. Discover Society 2016 (34)
- Smith, D. R. 2016. "Imagining others more complexly": celebrity and the ideology of fame among YouTube's "Nerdfighteria". Celebrity Studies 7 (3), pp.339-353. (10.1080/19392397.2015.1132174)
- Smith, D. 2015. Self-heckle: Russell Kane's stand up as an example of "comedic sociology". Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization 15 (3), pp.561-579.
- O'Connor, H. , Ashton, D. and Smith, D. 2015. Norbert Elias and social theory [Book Review]. British Journal of Sociology of Education 36 , pp.474-486. (10.1080/01425692.2015.1005952)
- Smith, D. R. 2014. The gent-rification of English masculinities: class, race and nation in contemporary consumption. Social Identities 20 (4-5), pp.391-406. (10.1080/13504630.2014.1002392)
- Smith, D. 2014. Charlie is so "English"-like: nationality and the branded celebrity person in the age of YouTube. Celebrity Studies 5 (3), pp.256-274. (10.1080/19392397.2014.903160)
- Smith, D. 2014. The elite ethic of fiduciarity: the heraldry of the Jack Wills brand. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization 14 (1), pp.81-107.
Gwefannau
- Smith, D. 2019. ITV's Broadchurch as a Country Noir: allegory and post-colonial nostalgia in the English countryside. [Online].Theory, Culture & Society. Available at: http://www.theoryculturesociety.org/daniel-smith-on-broadchurch-as-a-country-noir/.
Llyfrau
- Smith, D. 2023. The fall and rise of the English upper class: Houses, kinship and capital since 1945. Manchester University Press.
- Smith, D. R. 2018. Comedy and critique: stand-up comedy and the professional ethos of laughter. Bristol: Bristol University Press. (10.2307/j.ctv56fgq1)
- Smith, D. R. 2016. Elites, race and nationhood: the branded gentry. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ymchwil
Mae fy niddordebau ymchwil mewn:
- Cymdeithaseg elites a dosbarth cymdeithasol (ESP. Hunaniaeth dosbarth uchaf (canol) Prydain; arferion defnydd a chyfeiriadedd ffordd o fyw)
- Cymdeithaseg o enwogion (ESP. rhyngrwyd/cyfryngau cymdeithasol enwog; ideolegau o enwogrwydd; enwogion a (para-) cymdeithasoldeb; enwogion a hunhood)
- Cymdeithaseg cyfryngau cymdeithasol newydd a chymdeithaseg ddigidol (ESP. YouTube; Fideo-blogio; Hunan-gyflwyniad).
- Cymdeithaseg y celfyddydau (esp. comedi stand-yp): estheteg a strwythurau cymdeithasol; hiwmor a beirniadaeth; moderniaeth a hiwmor; gwleidyddiaeth hiwmor a hunaniaeth)
- Damcaniaeth gymdeithasol a diwylliannol (naratif; mythau; semioteg; perfformiadau; estheteg a bywyd cymdeithasol)
Addysgu
I contribute to modules across the undergraduate programme in the School of Social Sciences.
Bywgraffiad
My undergraduate degree was in History & Sociology (BA Hons) and my PhD was in Sociology, both at the University of Exeter. At Exeter my PhD, a cultural sociological study of elite group identity and sociability, consisted of an ethnographic study of the lifeworld and practices of a group of 18-24 year "upper-middle class" people who were of particular interest to the heritage clothing company, Jack Wills. My ethnography took me from polo fields in the south of England, to ski slopes in the Alps, to expensive sea-side towns in the West of England. (A hard life...). It was at Exeter that I developed my general interests in the sociological classics, esp. Georg Simmel, the sociology of art and artworks, and more broadly approaches to cultural sociology and ethnographic studies. Outside of an interest in the lifestyle of elites, I maintain a keen interest in the lifeworld of stand-up comedy and comedians, as well as an interest in the cultural forms of online, digital sociability.
Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau
- Cymrawd y Ganolfan Cymdeithaseg Ddiwylliannol, Prifysgol Yale: https://ccs.yale.edu/profile/daniel-smith
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
- Aelod o Fwrdd Golygyddol Cymdeithaseg Ddiwylliannol (2026 - presennol)
- Aelod o Fwrdd Golygyddol yr American Journal of Cultural Sociology (2023 - presennol)
- Aelod o Fwrdd Golygyddol Ymchwil Gymdeithasol Ar-lein (2020-2026)
- Cymrawd Academi Addysg Uwch Prydain (2015 – presennol)
- Aelod o Gymdeithas Gymdeithasol Prydain (2014- presennol)
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
- 2023- presennol Uwch Ddarlithydd mewn Cymdeithaseg, Ysgol y Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol, Prifysgol Caerdydd.
- 2019-2023 Darlithydd mewn Cymdeithaseg, Ysgol y Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol, Prifysgol Caerdydd.
- 2016-2018 Uwch Ddarlithydd mewn Cymdeithaseg, Adran y Dyniaethau a'r Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol, Prifysgol Anglia Ruskin.
- 2015-2016 Darlithydd mewn Cymdeithaseg, Adran y Dyniaethau a'r Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol, Prifysgol Anglia Ruskin.
- 2013-2015 Darlithydd mewn Cymdeithaseg, Ysgol Seicoleg, Gwleidyddiaeth a Chymdeithaseg, Prifysgol Eglwys Crist Caergaint.
- 2010-2013 Cynorthwyydd Addysgu Graddedig mewn Cymdeithaseg ac Anthropoleg, Adran Athroniaeth, Cymdeithaseg ac Anthropoleg, Prifysgol Caerwysg.
Ymrwymiadau siarad cyhoeddus
- 'Have we entered the era of the anxiety comedy', darlith gyhoeddus a draddodwyd ym Mhrifysgol Bern, y Swistir: https://www.bka.ch/event/have-we-entered-the-era-of-the-anxiety-comedy-on-the-angst-of-being-included-from-barbie-to-the-bear-vortrag-auf-englisch
- 'Destiny as a sociological universal', a gyflwynwyd i'r Ganolfan Cymdeithaseg Ddiwylliannol, Prifysgol Yale: https://ccs.yale.edu/previous-ccs-workshops
Pwyllgorau ac adolygu
Rwyf wedi gweithredu fel cyd-adolygydd i'r American Journal of Cultural Sociology, The Sociological Review, Ymchwil ansoddol, Dadansoddiad Cymdeithasol, Amser a Chymdeithas, Cyfryngau Newydd a Chymdeithas, Cymdeithas Fyd-eang, Journal of Children & Media, Cydgyfeirio, a Paradeim Perfformio.
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
Mae gen i ddiddordeb mewn goruchwylio gwaith ar:
- Dosbarth cymdeithasol
- Elites
- Cymdeithaseg o gelf a diwylliant
- Comedi
- Diwylliant enwogion
- Cyfryngau Cymdeithasol Newydd
- Damcaniaeth ddiwylliannol a chymdeithasol