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What follows is an excerpt from The Status of Scholarly Standards in Sociology, by Ashley T. Rubin, Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Professor Rubin’s report was published earlier this month under the auspices of the Vanderbilt–WashU Commission on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. Its Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences was published in April and excerpted in Quillette.Research Blind Spots and Intellectual Narrowing Sociology shows a heavy emphasis on some topics and not on others. Some topics’ popularity have declined over time…
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