Interdisciplinarity in French Social Sciences Scientific Journals
In: Dados: revista de ciências sociais ; publication of the IUPRJ, Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro, Band 60, Heft 3, S. 867-894
ISSN: 1678-4588
ABSTRACT Taking France as its example, the following article examines the relations between the disciplines of social sciences discovered during the arduous task of classifying French social sciences journals according to more specific disciplines (sociology, political science and anthropology, etc.). Based on a study of the journals' own methods of self-labeling and the methods used to classify these journals by a French assessment body (AERES), as well as the forming of journal executive committees, the article highlights the fact that the journals frequently cover a range of disciplines, without this implying the disappearance of disciplinary structures. In fact, the article instead reveals that the connections made by the journals between the various disciplines of social sciences are unlikely and disproportionately represented.