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Eminent Scientists,on became the basis of an unprecedented pyramidal distribution of internal prestige within the various disciplines, with a small number of extremely visible scientists occupying the top layer of the pyramid: the elite. Initial endeavors to identify the members of this elite were conducted by James M

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Sociology as an Academic Discipline,nstant flux and their core characteristics can change over time. This chapter documents the evolution of sociology from a discipline dominated by a few quasi-hegemonic U.S. schools of thought until the late 1960s, when it became a global discipline that no longer adheres to a universal scientific mo

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Identifying the Elite,ion that, in sociology, textbooks and academic journals both act as important publication outlets and subjects encyclopedias, textbooks, handbooks, and journals to citation analysis. Study II seeks to adjust to the fragmented nature of sociology by measuring citations in a multitude of academic jour

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Collective Biographies and Career Pathways,70 and 2010 is traced using a collective biography approach. Second, career trajectories and mobility patterns of Nobel Laureates in economics are compared with those of highly cited sociologists. The longitudinal perspective reveals that eminence, in general, is short-lived (<40 years). Although du

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The Rise to and the Fall from Eminence,Bourdieu using various scientometric methods. The major cause of Lipset’s decline appears to have been a narrowing of the reception of his ideas. Sociology’s fragmentation into specialties has turned Lipset, who used to be a central figure of sociology, into a figurehead of a single specialty—namely

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Making Sense of Prestige Elites,zations, the most important being that there exists a discipline-elite nexus. The case of sociology demonstrates that a discipline that loses its intellectual center of gravity also loses its homogeneous elite. Further, a research program is sketched out that is likely to deliver the best explanatio

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Elites as Gatekeepers,should think of elites in sociology not only as gatekeepers but also as gate-openers. The compelling, elegant and witty style of these letters reveals Merton’s ability to present his protégés in the best possible light and thus help to convince selection committees of their qualifications.

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