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Theorizing Subdisciplinary Exchange: Historical Sociology, Ethnography, and the Case of SSHA (2024)

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Sociology of knowledge Sociology Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge Ethnography Trading zones

What happens at the point of interchange between scholarly communities? We examine this question by investigating the case of growing ties between historical sociology and ethnography, two social scientific methods that once seemed to have little in common. Drawing on methodological writings by ethnographers and original interviews with practicing historical sociologists, we argue that these ties have been shaped by structural and methodological homologies between the two disciplines. Structurally, ethnography and historical sociology are similarly positioned in sociology more broadly, as enterprises with sometimes-tense relationships with dominant assumptions of the social sciences. Methodologically, both ethnographers and historical sociologists face the challenges of bounding the research process, navigating access to data, analyzing and retaining data while “in the field,” and overcoming cultural distance between themselves and the worlds they are studying. Taken together, these findings extend work in the sociology of science and knowledge and suggest some key conditions for intellectual efflorescence.

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Authors & Contributors
Barriga Villanueva, Rebeca
Centellas, Kate M.
Comelles, Josep M.
Fifield, Steve
Franco Avellaneda, Manuel
Graham, John T.
Journals
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Social Studies of Science
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Engineering Studies
Gender and History
Geographia antiqua
Publishers
Routledge
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios
McGill-Queen's University Press
University of Massachusetts Press
Ledizioni
Concepts
Ethnography
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Sociology
Science and technology studies (STS)
Anthropology
Social sciences
People
Ortega y Gasset, Jose
Pliny the Elder
Virgil
Merton, Robert K.
Cressey, Paul Goalby
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Ancient
18th century
Places
United States
France
Brazil
Mexico
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
Germany
Institutions
Columbia University (New York City)
Harvard University
Tulane University
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