Shifts in Scholarly Attention among World Regions

查尔斯库兹曼位于教堂山的北卡罗来纳大学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？这个项目检查社会科学期刊文章、书籍、博士论文和学科奖项，以了解在过去半个世纪里每个世界地区被研究的频率。这个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。这项研究产生的模式将有助于向社会科学家和教育政策制定者通报世界不同地区学术关注的趋势和可能存在的差距。美国高等教育国际化问题是学术界和政策界长期关注的问题，本文的研究将争论从整体层面转移到更具体的地区层面。该项目包括一个传播阶段，以便将这项研究的结果提交给国家专业组织的年度会议，以便推动对研究结果的讨论，并探讨教育政策对策。

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.