%0 Book Section %1 giordan2018exploring %A Giordan, Giuseppe %A Saint-Blancat, Chantal %A Sbalchiero, Stefano %B Tracing the Life Cycle of Ideas in the Humanities and Social Sciences %C Cham %D 2018 %E Tuzzi, Arjuna %I Springer International Publishing %K entwicklung soziologie usa %P 45--64 %R 10.1007/978-3-319-97064-6_3 %T Exploring the History of American Sociology Through Topic Modelling %U https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97064-6_3 %X 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. %@ 978-3-319-97064-6

@inbook{giordan2018exploring, abstract = {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.}, added-at = {2018-12-05T11:54:40.000+0100}, address = {Cham}, author = {Giordan, Giuseppe and Saint-Blancat, Chantal and Sbalchiero, Stefano}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/253147d2c41e024ad1d2aeb51119af723/wdees}, booktitle = {Tracing the Life Cycle of Ideas in the Humanities and Social Sciences}, description = {Exploring the History of American Sociology Through Topic Modelling | SpringerLink}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-97064-6_3}, editor = {Tuzzi, Arjuna}, interhash = {684058dae59dcbcf22d618467c43e9c0}, intrahash = {53147d2c41e024ad1d2aeb51119af723}, isbn = {978-3-319-97064-6}, keywords = {entwicklung soziologie usa}, pages = {45--64}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, timestamp = {2018-12-05T11:54:40.000+0100}, title = {Exploring the History of American Sociology Through Topic Modelling}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97064-6_3}, year = 2018 }