Korom Philipp
Department of Sociology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
Sociol Q. 2019 Apr 16;61(1):128-163. doi: 10.1080/00380253.2019.1581037. eCollection 2020.
This study is the first to systematically identify the most recognized scholars in sociology in the 1970s and 2010s by citation counts. This is achieved on the basis of a newly generated text corpus of approximately 49,000 pages, which encompasses various genres of literature (encyclopedias, handbooks, journals, textbooks). Investigations into common characteristics reveal that, in the 1970s, elites typically received their PhD from Columbia University, Harvard University, or the University of Chicago. The contemporary elite is partly European. In general, eminence is short-lived (<40 years). Over time, the elite has remained socially heterogeneous, but becomes more mobile and increasingly moves between universities. Coverage in specialist and generalist journals suggests that elite status in sociology cannot be achieved simply by dominating multiple communities inside sociology; elite sociologists are typically well received in the discipline's core.
本研究首次通过引用次数系统地识别出20世纪70年代和21世纪10年代社会学领域最受认可的学者。这是基于新生成的约49000页文本语料库实现的，该语料库涵盖了各种文学体裁（百科全书、手册、期刊、教科书）。对共同特征的调查显示，在20世纪70年代，精英们通常毕业于哥伦比亚大学、哈佛大学或芝加哥大学。当代精英部分来自欧洲。一般来说，卓越的地位是短暂的（不到40年）。随着时间的推移，精英群体在社会上仍然具有异质性，但流动性更强，越来越多地在不同大学之间流动。专业期刊和综合期刊的报道表明，在社会学领域获得精英地位并非仅仅通过主导社会学内部的多个群体就能实现；精英社会学家通常在该学科的核心领域备受认可。
