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Feminist discussion has suggested that women have been discriminated against in journal publication, and has advocated the study of women and feminist topics by women, and the use of qualitative methods. Using data on all relevant articles, this article explores the extent to which the pattern of articles by British authors in the main general British sociology journals suggests that the women's movement has made a difference on these points since 1950.

Ce texte traite de la spécificité des méthodes de recherche canadiennes par une observation d'abord du schéma général des méthodes utilisées dans les articles empiriques publiés dans les revues canadiennes majeures depuis les années 1960, puis de la transformation de ces méthodes et de leur différence quant aux productions canadiennes-françaises et canadiennes-anglaises. Des enjeux quant à l'influence américaine soulevés par le débat antérieur sur la canadianisation sont également abordés. Il a pu être établi que les différences de genre, qui traversent ces divisions « nationales », ont été les plus marquantes. L'effet net est que le schéma général canadien partage des similarités avec ce qui a pu être observé pour d'autres pays, malgré qu'à un niveau plus détaillé, existent des effets spécifiquement canadiens ou québécois. Les raisons de ces similarités et différences sont abordées.

l'auteure de cet article aborde la question de la spécificité des méthodologies de recherche canadiennes, en examinant d'abord les grands modeles de méthodologies utilisés dans les articles empiriques publiés dans les principales revues canadiennes à partir des années 1960, comment ils ont changé au cours des temps et comment ils ont différé chez les anglophones et les francophones du Canada. Elle examine aussi la question de l'influence américaine soulevée par le débat qui s'est tenu sur la canadianisation. Il en ressort qu'au cours des dernières années les différences dues à la spécificité des sexes qui traversent ces divisions nationales ont été les plus importantes. l'effet final est que le modèle canadien global a quelque chose en commun avec ceux enregistrés dans les autres pays, quoique, à un niveau plus circonstancié, il soit spécifiquement canadien ou québécois. Les raisons des similarités et des différences sont analysées.This paper addresses the question of the distinctiveness of Canadian research methods by looking first at the broad pattern of methods used in empirical articles published in leading Canadian journals from the 1960s, how these have changed over time, and how they have differed between Francophone and Anglophone Canada. Issues of U.S. influence raised by the earlier Canadianization debate are also addressed. It is found that, for the more recent period, gender differences that cut across these "national" divisions have been the more salient. The net effect is that the total Canadian pattern has something in common with that recorded for other countries, although at a more detailed level there are specifically Canadian or Québécois effects. Reasons for the similarities and differences are discussed.

Women have been a much lower proportion of university teachers of sociology than of students in sociology in Britain, and have also been under-represented in the higher ranks of academia. This has often been treated as the effect of discrimination. However, a review of available data suggests that women's choices - however formed - have also played a role, and that changing historical circumstances have affected the demography of the discipline in ways which have had significant consequences for women (and men) independent of either choice or discrimination. The current pattern cannot be understood without its history, which reveals that much of the snapshot picture of the situation now follows from strata of recruitment laid down at earlier periods.

A review essay on a book by Guy Oakes & Arthur J. Vidich, Collaboration, Reputation and Ethics in American Academic Life: Hans H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois U Press, 1999). This book documents the collaboration between Gerth & Mills in great detail, & then reflects on ethical issues faced by academics today. The work reveals Mills to be a plagiarist, opportunist, & hypocrite. Mills drew heavily on the German Gerth, because of Gerth's knowledge of Max Weber & German literature on the middle class. However, Oakes & Vidich suggest that Mills was the product of & represented the contemporary academic system. The authors' strategy in this book was to employ the account of the collaboration of Gerth & Mills to contribute to the sociology of knowledge, but their detailed narrative overtakes their sociology. 13 References. M. Pflum