The Career of Historical Social Science: Evidence from Book Reviews, 1900-2008

• In Event: 179 - Regular Session. History of Sociology/Social Thought

Abstract

The interdisciplinary project to connect social-science and history has been a key point of articulation between the humanities and social sciences. While there have been a multitude of prescriptive statements about this interdisciplinary relationship, however, there have been few descriptive studies of the history of its history and structure. We seek to fill this gap using a database of over 23,000 reviews of books in history, political science, and sociology journals between 1900 and 2014. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, we unpack these co-review frequencies and present initial evidence on how the same works are reviewed differently by the three disciplines' epistemic cultures.

Authors

• Nicholas Hoover Wilson, Stony Brook University

• Jensen Sass, University of Canberra