Philip Lewin
(Curriculum Vitae) Philip Lewin graduated from the University of Georgia in 2005 with degrees in sociology and political science and began graduate work in 2006. He received his master’s degree in sociology in 2008. Mr. Lewin’s interests center in the areas of culture and work and generally involve how people experience their self-concepts and the world around them as real within cultural conditions that compel doubt toward everything. His MA thesis, “In search of the Real, Enamored with the Authentic: A Study of Ideology and Practice in Punk Subculture,” investigates how a cultural discourse of authenticity inspired by Romantic aesthetics interacts with certain features of the postmodern condition to orient the subcultural participation of young people. From that work, he has published a co-authored article with Patrick Williams that indexes the continuities between punk ideology and that of the broader social milieu and is in the process of preparing two other articles. The first concerns how the ritual nature of punk concerts provides participants with a sense of ontological security vis-à-vis their identities, and the second explores how the search for the “real self” evolves over the life course.
Selected Publications
Lewin, Philip and J.P. Williams. Forthcoming. "A Study of Ideology and Practice in Punk Subculture." In Authenticity in Culture, Self and Society, edited by Phillip Vannini and J.P. Williams. London: Ashgate.
Contact Information
Department of Sociology
419 Baldwin Hall
Athens, GA 30602-1611
706-542-3208 (office)
706-542-4320 (fax)
plewin@uga.edu
