Today's episode of The Annex discusses the sociology of science, knowledge, and technology, with a focus on J.P Pardo-Guerra's new book, The Quantified Scholar (2022, Columbia University Press). This book examines modern British efforts to improve research through the development of quantitative metrics and metric-related incentive systems, and how this scheme altered the behavior of scientists and academic departments. The study stands as one example of modern sociology’s efforts to understand how the organization and incentivization of scientists affect the character of how scientists do their work and what kind of information gets produced.
Our banter discusses America's largest sociology departments.
Panelists include:
The Inner World of Political Campaigns (Laurison)
Science When the Money Runs Out (Reinecke)
Classical Sociology (Lizardo & Abrutyn)
How Americans Misunderstand China's Political System (Chua & Lei)
Racism and Racial Humor (Raul Perez)
Making Governments Respect Human Rights (Hajjar, Roberts & Viterbo)
The Economic Style of Thinking (Popp-Berman)
Religion in the Lives of Teens and Young Adults (Josh Packard)
Inequality, White Ignorance, and Public Sociology (Jennifer Mueller)
Food Deserts (Ken Kolb)
Media Framings of the War on Drugs (Rosino)
Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Entrepreneurs (Hyzen & Van den Bulck)
Posting Ivermectin Research to SocArXiv (Cohen & Pardo-Guerra)
Eric Fromm (Neil McLaughlin)
Antivaccine Movements (Carpiano and Reich)
Overdoing Democracy (Talisse)
Creativity (Hannah Wohl)
Gendered Structural Racism (Whitney Pirtle)
Training Doctors (Kelly Underman)
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