Visualizing Bring-backs
Keywords
visualization, sociology of knowledge, men
Abstract
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.”
Original Publication Citation
Omar Lizardo, Dustin S. Stoltz, Marshall A. Taylor, and Michael Wood. 2018. "Visualizing Bring-Backs." Socius
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Lizardo, Omar, "Visualizing Bring-backs" (2018). Faculty Publications. 5170.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/5170
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2018-10-18
Permanent URL
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/7904
Publisher
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
Language
English
College
Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Department
Sociology
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