ABSTRACT

How should we understand the academization of the social sciences around the turn of the twentieth century with regard to gender? In this article I argue in favour of a contextually broadened sociology of knowledge approach which highlights the importance of women’s extra-academic social research as a parallel and interconnected form of social knowledge to the new and male-dominated academic social sciences. Theoretically, the approach combines three perspectives: field theory, social movements research and historical studies of knowledge circulation. Empirically and methodologically, the study is prosopographically centred around nine female social researchers in Sweden 1900–1950 with an analytical focus on their aggregated career patterns, the gender-coded mechanisms of academic exclusion that were at play and three types of alternative arenas that were available for extra-academic social research during the period. It is concluded that we need to take this form of extra-academic social research into account to better understand the dynamics of the field of social knowledge as a whole, including the development of academic social science.

摘要

我们应该如何理解二十世纪之交社会科学在性别方面的学术化？在这篇文章中，我主张采用一种语境拓宽的知识社会学方法，该方法强调了女性学术外社会研究作为一种与男性主导的新学术社会科学平行和相互关联的社会知识形式的重要性。理论上，该方法结合了三个视角：场域理论、社会运动研究和知识流通历史研究。从经验和方法上讲，该研究以 1900-1950 年瑞典的九名女性社会研究人员为中心，分析重点是她们的总体职业模式，在此期间发挥作用的按性别编码的学术排斥机制以及可供学术外社会研究使用的三种替代领域。结论是我们需要考虑这种形式的学术外社会研究，以更好地理解整个社会知识领域的动态，包括学术社会科学的发展。