Sociology of science: are knowledge production and the quest for scientific status two divergent courses?

Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey; Almeida, Waltécio de Oliveira; Lycurgo, Tassos

doi:10.1590/s0104-59702009000200012

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“…Thus, science, and, hence, also Sociology, are influenced by internal and external factors (Almeida, 1994;Bartolucci, 2017;Machado Júnior, Souza, Parisotto, & Palmisano, 2016;Hamati-Ataya, 2018;Au, 2018;Zuckerman, 2018;Tang, 2017;Jedlikowska, 2016;Christoffersen et al, 2009;Tanguy, 2012), requiring a "constant socio-epistemological vigilance" (Hamati-Ataya, 2018, p. 15).…”

Section: Sociology As Scientific Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Sociology as Scientific Knowledge

Serpa

Ferreira

2019

Journal of Educational and Social Research

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Sociology is a science with specificities and which can potentially offer a more rigorous knowledge about reality. The goal of this position paper is, by means of a thorough literature review, to contribute to demonstrating the urgency of using a sociological stance in a more complete understanding of the social, as well as of Sociology itself as a science. It is concluded that Sociology, a multi-paradigmatic science, seeks to articulate macro-social dynamics with local processes, allowing to connect the subjective significances with the practices, and which focus on the articulations between systems and actors, between structures and practices, between the reality of the social conditions of existence, and the social construction of reality. As an implication, Sociology as a scientific representation and practice of the social, can be cumbersome by helping to dismantle commonly shared preconceived ideas about the instituted social order.

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Section: Sociology As Scientific Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Sociology as Scientific Knowledge

Serpa

Ferreira

2019

Journal of Educational and Social Research

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“…Notwithstanding how awkward it may seem, sometimes scientists act as if they were protecting their animals-objects-data, in the same way that animals may protect their territory. This struggle for data only occurs because the number of publications and citations give prestige to authors in the scientific world (Christoffersen et al, 2009). This provokes a dispute of egos accompanied by a distorted notion of power associated with a pseudo-hierarchy created by the amounts of publications.…”

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Zoological Collections and the Effects of Scientific Territorialism

Poliseli¹,

Christoffersen²

2012

Sociological Landscape - Theories, Realities and Trends

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“…ISI, established in 1960 and presently a part of the Thomson Reuters Corporation maintains the largest current database on international publications from all fi elds of science, which can be accessed from the Internet (http://apps.isiknowledge.com; http:// thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science). It contains almost forty million international scientifi c publications and about 8,500 peerreviewed journals, and once every week, somewhere between twenty and seventy thousand new references are added (Christoffersen et al, 2009). By subscribing to a time-limited service of Thomson Reuters' Web of Knowledge database (the subscription provides access to publications indexed in the Web of Knowledge database from Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences 2012 75 2008 to present), NUM has taken an important step to make evaluation of faculty performance more objective.…”

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A Coauthorship Network as an Indicator for Scientifi c Collaboration: A Case Study for the School of Biology and Biotechnology, National University of Mongolia

Boldgiv¹

2012

Mong. J. Biol. Sci.

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This case study analyzes coauthorship collaboration, or lack thereof, among individual faculty members and departments in the School of Biology and Biotechnology of the National University of Mongolia. I found that publication rates and coauthorship networks in impact-factor journals between 2008 and 2012 (as of October 31, 2012) are highly variable among the eight biology departments we studied, both within and among departments. Even in the best cases, publication rates and coauthorship networks were not suffi cient. We call such insuffi cient coauthorship collaboration among different departments as (non)network of coauthorship. The size of departments and observed coauthorship networks (both connectance and linkage density) appear to positively, although insignifi cantly, affect not only the total number of publications, but also the publication rate per faculty per year. We suggest that this kind of analysis can be important for administration of academic institutions, for improving the scientifi c outputs of academic entities by facilitating collaborative efforts and for rationalizing organizational structures and merit-based promotion systems for more productive and effi cient academic operations.

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Sociology of science: are knowledge production and the quest for scientific status two divergent courses?

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Sociology as Scientific Knowledge

Sociology as Scientific Knowledge

Zoological Collections and the Effects of Scientific Territorialism

A Coauthorship Network as an Indicator for Scientifi c Collaboration: A Case Study for the School of Biology and Biotechnology, National University of Mongolia

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