We propose the development of 'digital reflexive sociology', understood as the use of digital methods and Big Data to reflect on the social and historical circumstances of sociologists and sociological thinking. To show this approach's potential, we employ Wikipedia as a ‘reflexive tool’, i.e., an external artefact of self-observation that can help sociologists to notice conventions, biases, and blind spots within their discipline. We analyse the collective patterns of the 500 most notable sociologists on Wikipedia, performing structural, network, and text analyses of their biographies. Our exploration reveals patterns in their historical frequency, gender composition, geographical concentration, birth-death mobility, centrality degree, biographical clustering, and proximity between countries, also stressing institutions, events, places, and relevant dates from a biographical point of view. Linking these patterns in a diachronic way, we distinguish five generations of sociologists recorded on Wikipedia and emphasise the high historical concentration of the discipline in geographical areas, gender, and schools of thought. Drawing on these results, we discuss the potential of using digital repositories and methods to enhance reflexivity within sociology.

我们提出发展“数字反思社会学”，理解为使用数字方法和大数据来反思社会学家和社会学思维的社会和历史环境。为了展示这种方法的潜力，我们将维基百科用作“反身工具”，即自我观察的外部人工制品，可以帮助社会学家注意到他们学科中的惯例、偏见和盲点。我们分析了维基百科上 500 位最著名的社会学家的集体模式，对他们的传记进行结构、网络和文本分析。我们的探索揭示了它们的历史频率、性别构成、地理集中度、出生-死亡流动性、中心度、传记集群和国家之间的接近度等模式，同时强调制度、事件、从传记的角度来看，地点和相关日期。以历时的方式将这些模式联系起来，我们区分了维基百科上记录的五代社会学家，并强调了该学科在地理区域、性别和思想流派方面的高度历史集中。根据这些结果，我们讨论了使用数字存储库和方法来增强社会学内反身性的潜力。