Social sciences in Latin America: a comparative perspective - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay

Garretón, Manuel Antonio; Murmis, Miguel; Sierra, Gerónimo de; Trindade, Hélgio

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“…Therefore the higher production from those regions is partly explained by the better coverage of their journals, even if the numbers continue to be low. The weak coverage of Spanishlanguage journals largely explains the relatively low number of social sciences articles from this region while Latin America has had vibrant social sciences communities, beyond the relatively significant rise of their production compiled in the WoS (Garreton et al, 2005). The rise of Asia is even more spectacular: in the 2000s, one-tenth of the world social sciences articles had at least one Asian address according to the SSCI while the number of Asian journals in the database remains relatively small.…”

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The globalization of social sciences? Evidence from a quantitative analysis of 30 years of production, collaboration and citations in the social sciences (1980–2009)

2013

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This article addresses the issue of internationalization of social sciences by studying the evolution of production (of academic articles), collaboration and citations patterns among main world regions over the period 1980–2009 using the SSCI. The results confirm the centre–periphery model and indicate that the centrality of the two major regions that are North America and Europe is largely unchallenged, Europe having become more important and despite the growing development of Asian social sciences. The authors’ quantitative approach shows that the growing production in the social sciences but also the rise of international collaborations between regions have not led to a more homogeneous circulation of the knowledge produced by different regions, or to a substantial increase in the visibility of the contributions produced by peripheral regions. Social scientists from peripheral regions, while producing more papers in the core journals compiled by the SSCI, have a stronger tendency to cite journals from the two central regions, thus losing at least partially their more locally embedded references, and to collaborate more with western social scientists. In other words, the dynamic of internationalization of social science research may also lead to a phagocytosis of the periphery into the two major centers, which brings with it the danger of losing interest in the local objects specific to those peripheral regions.

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The globalization of social sciences? Evidence from a quantitative analysis of 30 years of production, collaboration and citations in the social sciences (1980–2009)

2013

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“…But despite the challenge in bringing new voices in, there are examples where the effort has succeeded and brought with it new knowledge. For example, an issue of the journal Social Science Information collected nation reports on social science in a number of Latin American countries, bringing new insights into the institutionalization of social science in that region (see Garreton, Murmis, de Sierra, & Trindade, 2005, for an overview). Charmaz (2012, and this Special Issue) reports tantalizing results from a survey of the use of Grounded Theory by researchers from non-English speaking but developed societies.…”

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Qualitative Research and Our Digital Futures

Fielding

2014

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Those who lived through the 1960s recall a time of rapid social change and political turmoil. Commentators discern parallels with present times, citing the Arab Spring, the West’s fiscal crisis, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Social science saw its own upheavals in the 1960s—the emergence of Grounded Theory, postmodernism, and perspectives based on the counter-culture, feminism, and minorities. This article sees contemporary equivalents in the growth of “citizen research” and indigenous methods, and consequent struggles over what research is for. We should not see these developments as a crisis in the hegemony of social science but as its coming of age, and qualitative research as its principal arena

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“…Ce que nous devons souligner, c'est que la définition de la société globale tend à recouper celle de l'État-nation, avec pour conséquence que la tradition sociologique se trouve liée à celui-ci de manière profonde et non accessoire. Il peut, certes, exister une définition de la société globale qui transcende, pour la communauté de sociologues, les espaces des États-nations, ainsi que ce fut et demeure le cas pour l'Amérique latine (Garretôn, Murmis, de Sierra et Trindade, 2005), mais les espaces nationaux ne s'en trouvent pas effacés pour autant ; qu'il suffise d'affirmer ici que, en ce qui concerne l'Amérique latine (mais cela vaut pour d'autres régions), des instances et institutions particulières, supranationales (ainsi le Programme international d'études avancées de la Maison des sciences de l'homme à Paris) ont pu jouer le rôle, pour un certain groupe de chercheurs, de structures étatiques par défaut -un rôle qui, sans être mineur, n'en est pas moins fragile. À rebours, l'existence de telles structures ne saurait être une condition suffisante si elles ne sont pas saisies dans l'horizon de la société globale nationale, ainsi que nous l'apprend le cas de la sociologie canadienne-anglaise, elle qui a été suscitée par le développement du providentialisme d'État dans les années 1950 et 1960, et qui a pourtant, par la proximité de langue, de culture et de géographie, grandi dans l'ombre de la sociologie américaine.…”

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Universalisation et traditionalisation de la discipline sociologique

Warren

2006

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RésuméCet article s’intéresse à la fondation historique d’un champ disciplinaire national, c’est-à-dire au processus de traditionalisation scientifique. Plus spécifiquement, il cherche à mieux comprendre, et ce en la comparant sans cesse au développement de la sociologie du Canada anglophone, comment la sociologie du Québec francophone a progressivement créé un espace référentiel, méthodologique, théorique et politique, et comment celle-ci a cherché, surtout dans les années 1960 et 1970, à promouvoir une connaissance enracinée dans la réalité nationale. C’est ainsi que l’auteur est amené à souligner trois dimensions inhérentes à la constitution d’un champ sociologique national, soit la définition d’une société globale, l’écriture d’une histoire, ainsi que la formulation de méthodes et de théories spécifiques — marginalisant donc les dimensions idéologiques et institutionnelles invoquées par Harry H. Hiller dans ses travaux sur l’établissement des traditions sociologiques canadiennes.

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Social sciences in Latin America: a comparative perspective - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay

Cited by 22 publications

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The globalization of social sciences? Evidence from a quantitative analysis of 30 years of production, collaboration and citations in the social sciences (1980–2009)

The globalization of social sciences? Evidence from a quantitative analysis of 30 years of production, collaboration and citations in the social sciences (1980–2009)

Qualitative Research and Our Digital Futures

Universalisation et traditionalisation de la discipline sociologique

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