American, French &amp; German Sociologies Compared through Link Analysis of Conference Abstracts

Meter, Karl M. van; Léger, Mathilde de Saint

doi:10.1177/0759106314521977

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“…Most scholars provided conceptual-rather than empirical-approaches on the issue, debating over factors of knowledge generation mechanisms, while a few used empirical models, mapping the intellectual space of their discipline. A few scholars focused on co-authorship networks [3,4], while others focused on the associational affiliations and professional memberships [9,10], and the content analysis of the mainstream academic journals describing the topical patterns based on which they detected the thematic structure of their sociological discipline [11][12][13][14]. They all employed different modes of knowledge production (i.e., academic journals, conference proceedings, etc.…”

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“…In this paper, I first provide an overview of several vanguard scholarly works with an emphasis on the theoretical frameworks and methodological styles, examining the intellectual landscape and the knowledge frames in sociology [1,8,9,[13][14][15]. Many scholars studied knowledge production mechanisms, as well as described the intellectual landscape of sociology and other disciplines with an emphasis on the content analysis of abstracts, articles, conference proceedings, and other intellectual commodities.…”

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Communities of Scholars: A Conceptual Scheme of Knowledge Production

Zougris

2018

Societies

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This conceptual paper provides a meta-theoretical synthesis describing knowledge production processes in the sociological discipline. The first part of this paper gives an overview of recent studies exploring the sociological knowledge space with an emphasis on the epistemological tension, and the structural divides induced by social conditions that contribute to the process of knowledge production. A meta-theoretical synthesis -constituted by the institutional theory framework, combined with the field theory and the theory of communities of practice- aims to identify the structural arrangements, the cultural domains and the interactive processes that establish intellectual consensus, from which, validated forms of scientific knowledge are generated. I detect an intrinsic mechanism of different camps of communities of scholars accumulating intellectual capital through a process of participation, negotiation, and reification, which is based on a knowledge circuit among academic fields and the intellectual habitus that form a holistic institution of knowledge generation practices. Finally, I suggest that further research in the direction of detecting the institutional arrangements of knowledge exchange, with an emphasis on the epistemological preferences across countries, should be carried out.

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