A Topic Model on the Economic Orientation of Sociology

Sep 20

Written By SCEPA

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This paper tests the conventional story that since the birth of the discipline of sociology, the economic orientation of the discipline has peaked twice: 1890-1920 and sometime after 1985.

We have tested this story by using all full-text articles provided by JSTOR between the periods 1890 to 2014: this contains 142 040 articles and 157 journals. We used a combination of topic modelling (machine learning applied to text) and multilevel modelling (regression) to accomplish this.

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A Topic Model on the Economic Orientation of Sociology

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