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The intellectual and social organization of ASA 1990– 1997: Exploring the interface between the discipline of sociology and its practitioners

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This article examines patterns of joint membership in ASA sections and analyzes the resulting section clusters in order to ultimately assess the present state of the disci-pline and unearth the organizational structure underlying intellectual and profes-sional currents. Previous empirical findings regarding the structure of sociology in the 1980s are largely confirmed for sociology in the 1990s. Despite a 41 percent increase in the number of ASA sections between 1990 and 1997, I find remarkable stability in the interpretation of clusters of sections, a fact that provides an updated empirical basis for the assessment of internal debates within the discipline and sug-gests future structural trends.

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Daipha, P. The intellectual and social organization of ASA 1990– 1997: Exploring the interface between the discipline of sociology and its practitioners. Am Soc 32, 73–90 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-001-1029-0

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