Detecting Topical Divides and Topical “Bridges” Across National Sociologies
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to describe the topical structure across national sociologies and detect the topic clusters contributing to the intellectual divide of the discipline. I employed a hybrid methodological style consisting of latent semantic analysis, topic polarization index and simple correspondence analysis to extract and map the topical divides across American and British sociological journals. The textual data were drawn from...
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Title
Detecting Topical Divides and Topical “Bridges” Across National Sociologies
Published Date
Sep 25, 2018
Journal
Volume
50
Issue
1
Pages
63 - 84
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