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Sociology, Economics, and Gender
Author(s) -
Nelson Julie A.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2010.00738.x
Subject(s) - discipline , sociology , divergence (linguistics) , field (mathematics) , social science , bridge (graph theory) , economic sociology , science studies , historical sociology , epistemology , gender studies , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics
A bstract This article explores the profoundly gendered nature of the split between the disciplines of economics and sociology that took place in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries, emphasizing implications for current efforts to bring the fields more closely together. Drawing on historical documents and feminist studies of science, it investigates the gendered processes underlying the divergence of the disciplines in definition, method, and degree of engagement with social problems. The recently developed field of economic sociology and other efforts to bridge the disciplinary gap have the potential to heal this disciplinary split, if they are broadened, deepened, and made wiser and more self‐reflective through the use of feminist analysis.