Exploring the History of American Sociology Through Topic Modelling
Exploring the History of American Sociology Through Topic Modelling
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通过主题建模探索美国社会学史
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2018
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Stefano Sbalchiero
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G. Giordan;C. Saint;Stefano Sbalchiero
本研究旨在探讨上个世纪（1921-2016）《美国社会学杂志》发表的文章摘要中主题的时间演变。在话题检测的视角下，本研究追踪了具有显著增加或减少趋势的话题，并显示了该学科在美国语境下的不同变化。一个研究领域在特定时间跨度内的相关性及其时间演变可以是一种识别范式变化的方法，这些范式变化表明社会学家如何对社会现象作出反应，并随着观察到的社会变化刺激了理论、思想和新兴的研究兴趣。结果突出了同一时期社会学辩论的方向，将早期《华尔街日报》作为一门新学科——社会学的声音，与最近在专业化进程和学科的科学多样化之间不断紧张的发展区分开来。
The study aims to explore the temporal evolution of topics in the abstracts of articles published by the American Journal of Sociology in the last century (1921–2016). Within the topic detection perspective, this study traces the topics with a significant increasing or decreasing trends and shows different shifts that involved the discipline in the American context. The relevance of a research area in a specific time span and its temporal evolution can be a way to identify the paradigm changes which show how sociologists have reacted to social phenomena and they have stimulated theories, ideas, and emerging research interests along with the social change it observed. The results highlighted the directions of sociological debate within the same period by differentiating the early period when the Journal was the voice of a new discipline—sociology—from recent developments within the constant tensions between specialization processes and the scientific diversification of the discipline.