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2377 - Who Gets Accepted and Who Gets Rejected?

Sun, August 12, 12:30 to 2:10pm, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin Hall 13

Session Submission Type: Workshop

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This workshop will introduce potential users to a restricted-use digital archive of American Sociological Review manuscripts and reviews from 1990 through 2010, give examples of how to use it, and help participants to develop questions and techniques for analysis. Scholars who want to develop their ability to use a brand-new data set to study the history of sociology, the sociology of knowledge, intellectual history, the dynamics of formal organizations, social stratification, and, most broadly, the ways power and knowledge interact to determine “what can be said” about a topic at any given moment will want to participate in this workshop.
This digital archive was created by the American Sociological Association and the Center for Social Science Research at the George Mason University that includes 8,441 manuscripts, with attendant reviews, information on authors and reviewers that can be analyzed by researchers. Unlike, any other study of academic work, limited to published articles, this archive contains both published and unpublished manuscripts, so that archive users can study patterns of acceptance and rejection, frequencies of author and reviewer who submit to the journal, their race/ethnicity, and gender and their network relationships
Specific Learning Goals
1. Understanding the Structure and Content of the Digital Archive.
2. Formulating research questions that can be answered using the digital archive(e.g.)
• What intellectual orientations, major paradigms and methods of the discipline became more or less visible during these important decades?
• How has the composition of manuscript submitters changed by race, ethnicity, gender, and institutional affiliation?
• Do the manuscript reviewers reflect a disciplinary elite who act as gatekeepers to the journal?
3. Learning how to answer specific research questions by manipulating the variables and files in the archive.

This workshop will introduce potential users to a restricted-use digital archive of American Sociological Review manuscripts and reviews from 1990 through 2010, give examples of how to use it, and help participants to develop questions and techniques for analysis. Scholars who want to develop their ability to use a brand-new data set to study the history of sociology, the sociology of knowledge, intellectual history, the dynamics of formal organizations, social stratification, and, most broadly, the ways power and knowledge interact to determine “what can be said” about a topic at any given moment will want to participate in this workshop.
This digital archive was created by the American Sociological Association and the Center for Social Science Research at the George Mason University that includes 8,441 manuscripts, with attendant reviews, information on authors and reviewers that can be analyzed by researchers. Unlike, any other study of academic work, limited to published articles, this archive contains both published and unpublished manuscripts, so that archive users can study patterns of acceptance and rejection, frequencies of author and reviewer who submit to the journal, their race/ethnicity, and gender and their network relationships
Specific Learning Goals
1. Understanding the Structure and Content of the Digital Archive.
2. Formulating research questions that can be answered using the digital archive(e.g.)
• What intellectual orientations, major paradigms and methods of the discipline became more or less visible during these important decades?
• How has the composition of manuscript submitters changed by race, ethnicity, gender, and institutional affiliation?
• Do the manuscript reviewers reflect a disciplinary elite who act as gatekeepers to the journal?
3. Learning how to answer specific research questions by manipulating the variables and files in the archive.

Participants will receive codebooks and examples of how to answer specific questions. The co-facilitators of the workshop (James Witte, George Mason University, Roberta Spalter-Roth, American Sociological Association (ASA) and George Mason University, Yukiko Furuya, George Mason University, and Jean Shin, ASA) will aid participants in developing research questions of interest to them and how these questions can be answered using the digital archives.

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