TY  - JOUR
TI  - Narrating the guillotine: punishment technology and symbol 
T2  - The Russian Sociological Review
IS  - The Russian Sociological Review
KW  - sacred
KW  - collective representations
KW  - punishment technology
KW  - guillotine
KW  - Gothic symbolism
AB  - Philip Smith is one of the main followers of the "strong program in cultural sociology". Along with Jeffrey C. Alexander, he is a co-author of a number of works which are constitutive for the tradition itself. Several of those are the strong program in cultural sociology "manifesto"; some texts which affirm late-Durkheimian program to be productive theoretical resource as well as history of the sociology fact; review of the second English translation of the "Elementary Forms" by Emile Durkheim. The work is representing a theory-oriented research of French revolution punishment technologies. It involves an analysis of expert and mass discourse concerning the guillotine as a regime’s crucial symbolic representation. Cultural sociological reasoning is opposed to Foucault-inspired theoretical tradition which is dominant in criminology and the sociology of punishment.
AU  - Philip Smith
UR  - https://sociologica.hse.ru/en/2008-7-2/28122323.html
PY  - 2008
SP  - 3-23
VL  - 7