Shifts in Scholarly Attention among World Regions

查尔斯·库兹曼北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校摘要：社会科学如何绘制世界地图美国社会科学如何观察世界？本项目考察了社会科学期刊文章、书籍、博士论文和学科奖项，以了解在过去半个世纪中，每个世界地区被研究的频率。该项目生成的数据集将使我们能够跟踪世界各地学术关注的趋势，并测试社会科学社会学中关于研究人员如何选择研究对象的理论。从这项研究中得出的模式将有助于社会科学家和教育决策者了解世界不同地区学术关注的趋势和可能存在的差距。美国高等教育的国际化一直是学术界和政策圈长期关注的问题。这项工作将辩论从国际化的总体水平转移到更详细的按地区划分的国际化。该项目包括一个传播阶段，以便向国家专业组织的年度会议介绍这项研究的结果，以促进对研究结果的讨论和探索教育政策的反应。

SES-1123509Charles KurzmanUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillAbstractHow Social Science Maps the WorldHow does American social science observe the world? This project examines social-scientific journalarticles, books, doctoral dissertations, and disciplinary awards to see how often each world region hasbeen studied over the past half-century. The dataset that this project generates will allow us to track thetrends in scholarly attention to various parts of the world, and to test theories in the sociology of socialscience about how researchers select subjects for study.The patterns that emerge from this research will help to inform social scientists and educational policymakers about trends and possible gaps in scholarly attention to different regions of the world. Theinternationalization of American higher education has been a longstanding concern in academia and inpolicy circles; this work moves the debate beyond the overall level of internationalization to a moredetailed break-out of internationalization by region. The project includes a dissemination phase in order topresent the results of this research to annual meetings of national professional organizations, in order tospur discussion of the research findings and explore educational policy responses.