Visualizing Bring-backs:

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

OmarLizardo¹ 

关键词: visualization;    sociology of knowledge;    men;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2378023118805362

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

The figure plots the number of articles that have attempted to “bring” something “back in” in the social sciences by publication year and number of citations. Andrew Abbott, taking a (pessimistic) sociology of knowledge perspective, identified this tendency—beginning with Homans’s classic article “Bringing Men Back in”—as emblematic of the tendency to rediscover old ideas in sociology. The plot shows that “bring-backs” did not become a common yearly occurrence until the mid to late 1990s but are now relatively frequent. The most successful bring-backs have been relatively abstract things such as the “state” and “society” and more recently, “culture,” “knowledge,” and “values.”

【 授权许可】

CC BY