Core Concepts and Common Ground: The Relational Basis of Our Discipline.

Smith-Lovin, Lynn

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Publication Date: 1999

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Core Concepts and Common Ground: The Relational Basis of Our Discipline.

Smith-Lovin, Lynn

Social Forces, v78 n1 p1-23 Sep 1999

The structure that best develops a discipline's core has a high density of positive network ties within the discipline, relatively weak subdivisions, and a lower density of ties to outside institutions. Theoretical insights about interactional dynamics that weaken this optimal disciplinary structure may help sociologists deal productively with major social changes occurring in their field. Contains 50 references. (Author/SV)

Descriptors: College Faculty, Collegiality, Group Dynamics, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Interprofessional Relationship, Networks, Organizational Climate, Power Structure, Sociologists, Sociology

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Adapted from the presidential address given at the Southern Sociological Society meetings (Nashville, TN, April 1999).