TRENDS IN SOCIOLOGY LITERATURE AND RESEARCH: |
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| Abstract: | Certain characteristics of the journal literature of sociology were studied for what they would reveal about the structure of research in the discipline. Articles in three key sociology journals for the years 1968 and 1978 were examined for the kinds of data used to forward their research hypotheses or principal theses. A significant difference is found between categories of data used in 1968 and 1978 articles. The trend is toward greater proportions of studies which use numerical or other statistically manipulatable data. Other aspects examined by the study include: when data were collected in relation to a study's being published, which kinds of studies have received funding, which kinds of studies have single rather than multiple authorship, and which kinds of studies tend to be the subject of papers read at professional meetings. Results are discussed in terms of their implications for libraries. |
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