Careers in Print: Canadian Sociological Books and Their Wider Impact, 1975-1992

Bibliometric monitoring of research performance in the Social Sciences and the Humanities: A Review

“…Traditionally, in many social sciences and humanities fields, publications in edited volumes and monographs tend to be important for both output and impact (e.g., BROADUS, 1971;CLEMENS et al, 1995;CRONIN et al, 1997;HICKS & POTTER, 1991;KYVIK, 2003;LEWISON, 2001;LINDHOLM-ROMANTSCHUK & WARNER, 1996;NEDERHOF et al, 1989;NOCK, 2001;PRICE, 1970;SMALL & CRANE, 1979;THOMPSON, 2002;but see HARGENS, 2000).…”

A citation analysis of the quantitative/qualitative methods debate's reflection in sociology research: Implications for library collection development

“…Various inquiries have found that women are more likely to author qualitative than quantitative publications [26], women are underrepresented as journal article authors [36], and women are more likely to publish books compared to core journal articles [37]. Moreover, women are more likely to cite women's than men's articles [36,38], and women are more likely to cite gender than nongender-focused articles [38].…”

A Canadian rejoinder: Sociology north and south of the border

“…As a consequence of this history, Anglo-Canadian universities have always had a British flavor to them, something that can be seen in terms of faculty hiring, university governance, and culture as well as the intellectual orientation of Canadian institutions of higher education. In Quebec, in contrast, one can see, especially after the 1960s, a strong French orientation, as Quebec nationalists looked to European intellectual culture as a counter-weight to the English speaking hegemony of both American and Anglo-Canadian universities (Brym, 2002;Cormier, 2002Cormier, , 2004bEichler, 2002;Fournier, 2002;Helmes-Hayes, 2002;Ogmundson, 2002;Smith, 2002;Nock, 2002).…”

“…As a general rule, I would say that Canadian sociologists outside the sub-field of deviance make far too little use of Merton's insights, being excessively influenced by 1970s polemics that link Merton to Parson and thus, in the analysis of that time, conservatism and outdated positivism. Nock gives insight into the flavor for the culture of the time (Nock, 2002 7. Right-wing critics of the politics of professors have all too often created a myth of tenured radicals with unreasonable politics, something clearly contradicted by scholars who have done empirical research on the question (Hamilton and Hargens, 1993;Lipset, 1982;Nakhaie and Btym, 1999).…”