Colin’s forte is scholarship rather than research, at least as these terms are currently understood.
That is to say he doesn’t undertake the externally funded collection of fresh data, but rather concentrates on resolving conceptual and theoretical issues in the discipline through the careful study of extant sources. Thus, although he doesn’t apply for research funding he has been successful in obtaining grants and fellowships which have enabled him to be bought out of teaching, thereby gaining time to read, think and write. This emphasis on scholarship also means that he is unhappy to be thought of as a sociologist of something (i.e. a distinct area within sociology, such as religion, consumerism or cultural change) but prefers the simple, unmodified, label of `sociologist’, implying someone who tackles sociological problems, no matter what particular form they might take.
This list of awards includes the following:
The British Academy Research Fund in 1982; A Norman Chester Senior Research Fellowship in 1992/3; a Social Science Research Fellowship in 1997; a Visiting Scholarship at the Institute for Cultural Pluralism at the Candido Mendes University, Rio de Janeiro 1998; a Visiting Fellowship by the Australian National University Humanities Research Centre for 1999; and an Arts and Humanities Research Board fellowship in 2001. This emphasis on scholarship rather than research is evident in the fact that some 90% of his publications are sole authored.
Introduction
The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism
The Sociology of Irreligion
The Cult, the Cultic Milieu and Secularisation
The Craft Consumer: culture, craft and consumption in a postmodern society
Colin the Neo-Weberian
The Beatles
Publications (statistics)
- Sole authored books (9) Foreign Translations (6) Jointly Edited books (4)
- Articles (50, 45 sole authored) and Chapters in books (44, 42 sole authored)
- Details of Colin’s citations and research profile can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Colin-Campbell-15, and https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=6GUKOjQAAAAJ&hl=en
- While more information about Colin’s books (including reviews) can be found at Amazon Author Central.
- Colin’s ORCid is 0000-0002-9162-6345