Herman Smith
Herman
Smith, professor emeritus of
sociology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, passed away on April
5, 2008,
from esophageal cancer. He was 65. Read obituary here.
Email: smithh@umsl.edu
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Emeritus Professor, Sociology; Fellow, Center for International Studies; Adjunct Faculty, Washington University Department of East Asian Studies
B.A., University of Maryland, 1965 (Sociology/Psychology)
M.A., The American University, 1967 (Sociology)
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1970 (Sociology)
My major teaching and research interests are research methods; micro sociological issues dealing with emotions, socialization, and education; and cross-cultural comparative studies of Americans, Japanese, and French. My interest in methods is firmly committed to absolutely eclectic observation and measurement in which one fits method to the problem, as shown in my Strategies of Social Research, now in its third edition (Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1991). My interests in micro sociology are referenced in my Introduction to Social Psychology(Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1985). A third book, The Myth of Japanese Homogeneity (Nova Science Press, 1995) continues work on Japan. Over the past ten years I have explored affect control theory models of trait and emotional attribution in Japan, published mostly in the Social Psychology Quarterly. Recently I have expanded my mathematical models to Taiwan, Mainland China and Poland.