{"id":39506,"date":"2011-09-25T10:05:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T15:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=39506"},"modified":"2013-11-09T05:42:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T10:42:55","slug":"how-insular-are-academic-departments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/09\/25\/how-insular-are-academic-departments\/","title":{"rendered":"How Insular are Academic Departments?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Academic disciplines sometimes seem isolated from each other. \u00a0Like seems to speak to like. \u00a0This, it is sometimes worried, may lead to stultifying agreement within fields. Meanwhile, each field solves the same problem in different ways,\u00a0unbeknownst\u00a0to the next.<\/p>\n

It simply isn’t true, it turns out, that scholars don’t cite research in other fields. \u00a0Nor do all fields have the same level of insularity. \u00a0Illustrating this is the network map below, featured by the Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>. \u00a0The connections between disciplines represent how often academic articles published by scholars in each field link to other fields. \u00a0The results are pretty interesting:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Academic disciplines sometimes seem isolated from each other. \u00a0Like seems to speak to like. \u00a0This, it is sometimes worried, may lead to stultifying agreement within fields. Meanwhile, each field solves the same problem in different ways,\u00a0unbeknownst\u00a0to the next. It simply isn’t true, it turns out, that scholars don’t cite research in other fields. \u00a0Nor do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[209,295],"class_list":["post-39506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-social-networks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39506"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58677,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39506\/revisions\/58677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}