TY - JOUR
T1 - American Criminology Meets Collins
T2 - Global Theory of Intellectual Change and a Policy-Oriented Field
AU - Savelsberg, Joachim J.
AU - Flood, Sarah
PY - 2011/3
Y1 - 2011/3
N2 - Ideas from Randall Collins's Sociology of Philosophies are applied to U.S. criminology, a policy-oriented field and one case of differentiation out of a fragmented sociological discipline. Building on previous quantitative work, in-depth interviews with eight prominent scholars provide the empirical material. As in philosophy, vertical network ties are important. Yet, they may take different forms, with consequences for the shape of horizontal networks and the nature of scholarship. Comparable to philosophy, horizontal network ties provide social capital and opportunities for interaction rituals that generate collective effervescence and emotional energy. Further, the nature of these interactions is dependent on the changing institutional environment in which they are embedded. Such institutional settings, themselves affected by changes in the political economy, also provide material resources, constituting dependencies that produce mediated effects and, in this policy-oriented field, also direct effects on the nature of scholarship.
AB - Ideas from Randall Collins's Sociology of Philosophies are applied to U.S. criminology, a policy-oriented field and one case of differentiation out of a fragmented sociological discipline. Building on previous quantitative work, in-depth interviews with eight prominent scholars provide the empirical material. As in philosophy, vertical network ties are important. Yet, they may take different forms, with consequences for the shape of horizontal networks and the nature of scholarship. Comparable to philosophy, horizontal network ties provide social capital and opportunities for interaction rituals that generate collective effervescence and emotional energy. Further, the nature of these interactions is dependent on the changing institutional environment in which they are embedded. Such institutional settings, themselves affected by changes in the political economy, also provide material resources, constituting dependencies that produce mediated effects and, in this policy-oriented field, also direct effects on the nature of scholarship.
KW - Criminology
KW - Interaction rituals
KW - Knowledge
KW - Networks
KW - Science
KW - Social policy
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2010.01223.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2010.01223.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79551625061
SN - 0884-8971
VL - 26
SP - 21
EP - 44
JO - Sociological Forum
JF - Sociological Forum
IS - 1
ER -