Visible Colleges: The Social and Conceptual Structure of Sociology Specialties

Abstract

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Collaboration in sociology and other scientific disciplines: A comparative trend analysis of scholarship in the social, physical, and mathematical sciences

“…Recent assessments of sociology and psychology specialty areas reflect general trends of disciplinary consensus, emphasizing an ordered structure and shared cognitive areas (Adkins, 1973;Ennis, 1992) but with major divisions between macro and micro perspectives as well as ideational and applied approaches (Cappell and Guterbock, 1992;Ritzer, 1988). These findings offer limited support for the conjecture that communities of scholars, linked together by informal networks, are indeed present as Crane (1972) suggested but are becoming visible and more cohesive in the way they approach specific substantive problems.…”

The (uncertain) invisible college of Spanish accounting scholars

“…In the last decade, social network analysis allowed studying the invisible college hypothesis in diverse academic disciplines from humanities to physics (Acedo et al, 2006;Barabasi et al, 2002;Cappell and Guterbock, 1992;Hargens, 2000;Moody, 2004;Newman, 2001;Verspagen and Werker, 2004;Zuccala, 2006). Most of these studies are based on collaboration networks (edges based on co-authorship of research papers), although Cappell and Guterbock (1992) is based on affiliation networks (membership to associations), Hargens (2000) on citations, and Verspagen and Werker (2004) in questionnaires addressed to the members of the network.…”

“…Most of these studies are based on collaboration networks (edges based on co-authorship of research papers), although Cappell and Guterbock (1992) is based on affiliation networks (membership to associations), Hargens (2000) on citations, and Verspagen and Werker (2004) in questionnaires addressed to the members of the network. The results of these investigations point to well-connected research communities, in which the largest cluster of the network, with all its members connected, accounts for 50-80% of the network.…”

Intellectual Integration and Articles in Core Sociology Journals, 1960–2000

“…In contrast to the view that sociology is a discipline without integrating processes and structures, Ennis (1992) and Cappell and Guterbock (1992) demonstrate a structure of overlapping interests and memberships among sociologists in specialty groups and sections (see also Daipha 2001). In the words of Simpson and Simpson (2001:282): "The multiple memberships crosscut different disciplinary specialties, thus reducing possible fragmentation of the discipline."…”