Accolades
Smith received the Notre Dame Graduate Student Union’s Graduate Student Mentoring Award for 2020-2021. The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion granted Smith its Distinguished Book Award,2018, for his 2017 book,Religion:What it Is,How it Works,and Why it Matters (Princeton).
In 2012,the American Sociological Association section on Altruism,Morality,and Social Solidarity awarded Smith with the Distinguished Career Award. [6]
He was awarded the Lilly Fellows Program Distinguished Book Award in 2011 for his 2009 book,co-authored with Patricia Snell,Souls in Transition:the Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults. He was also awarded Christianity Today 's 2010 Distinguished Book Award for the same book,Souls in Transition. [7] He previously won Christianity Today 's2005 Distinguished Book Award for his 2005 book,co-authored with Melinda Lundquist Denton,Soul Searching:the Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers.
In December, Choice Magazine selected What Is a Person? as one of its Top 25 (out of 7000 reviewed) Outstanding Academic Titles of 2011. [8] The book also received the "Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize for 2010," from the International Association for Critical Realism. [9] Smith received for the same book the 2011 Honorable Mention Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence from American Publisher’s,Philosophy category.
In 2007,Smith's alma mater,Gordon College,presented him with the "Alumnus of the Year" award in "recognition of his many accomplishments and work as one of the leading Christian sociologists in the country." [10]
Michael Emerson and Smith's Divided by Faith was the winner of the "2001 Outstanding Book Award" from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Smith was awarded the "Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring,1995–96" by the Graduate Student Association,Department of Sociology,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This was followed in 2002 by an "Excellence in Mentoring Award,2001–2002" by the Graduate Student Association,Department of Sociology,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Smith was co-author with Mark Regnerus on the 1999 "Outstanding Article Award",granted by the American Sociological Association Section on the Sociology of Religion,for "Selective Deprivatization Among American Religious Traditions:The Reversal of the Great Reversal",published in Social Forces .
Critical realism
Critical realism (CR) is, in Smith's view, the most promising general approach to social science for best framing our research and theory. CR, as a philosophy of (social) science (not a sociological theory per se), offers the best alternative to the problems and limits presented by positivist empiricism, hermeneutical interpretivism, strong social constructionism, and postmodernist deconstruction. It is the meta-theoretical direction in which American sociology needs to move.
Smith's work in CR involves What is a Person? Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up (Chicago 2010) (with Moral, Believing Animals (OUP 2003) forming a pre-CR theoretical backdrop); To Flourish or Destruct: A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil (Chicago 2014), and Religion: What it Is, How it Works, and Why it Matters (Princeton 2017).
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