A View from Above: The Evolving Sociological Landscape

Autor/inn/en	Moody, James; Light, Ryan
Titel	A View from Above: The Evolving Sociological Landscape
Quelle	In: American Sociologist, 37 (2006) 2, S.67-86 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0003-1232
DOI	10.1007/s12108-006-1006-8
Schlagwörter	Intellectual History; Networks; Research; Sociology; Social Sciences; Intellectual Disciplines; Methods; Science History; Social Problems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geistesgeschichte; Forschung; Soziologie; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Geisteswissenschaften; Method; Methode; History of science; Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Social problem; Soziales Problem
Abstract	How has sociology evolved over the last 40 years? In this paper, we examine networks built on thousands of sociology-relevant papers to map sociology's position in the wider social sciences and identify changes in the most prominent research fronts in the discipline. We find first that sociology seems to have traded centrality in the field of social sciences for internal cohesion: sociology is central, but not nearly as well bounded as neighboring disciplines such as economics or law. Internally, sociology appears to have moved away from research topics associated with fundamental social processes and toward social-problems research. We end by discussing strategies for extending this work to wider science production networks. (As Provided).
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