The world-systemic network of global elite sociology: the western male monoculture at faculties of the top one-hundred sociology departments of the world

Marton Demeter () and Tamas Toth ()
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Marton Demeter: National University of Public Service
Tamas Toth: Corvinus University

Scientometrics, 2020, vol. 124, issue 3, No 33, 2469-2495

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we analyze the educational paths and networks of core staff members (n = 3325) of the world’s top 100 sociology departments. Results show that a significant overrepresentation of central countries and considerable gender bias can be found throughout sociology departments with strong male dominance in high positions. By using an improved word-systemic model for the interpretation of our data, we were able to categorize the main agents and patients in the world-system of global elite sociology, and we could also describe those centripetal and centrifugal forces that absorb and reeducate peripheral talent while excluding those without Western reeducation.

Keywords: Global sociology; Sociology of sociology; Knowledge colonialism; World-system theory; Field theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-020-03563-w

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