@article{80e65b5713d94f2cae8e63d6c259e1c7,
title = "The ladies vanish?: American sociology and the genealogy of its missing women on wikipedia",
abstract = "Many notable female sociologists have vanished from the canonical history of American sociology. As the most influential crowd-sourced encyclopedia, Wikipedia promises – but does not necessarily deliver – a democratic corrective to the generation of knowledge, including academic knowledge. This article explores multiple mechanisms by which women either enter or disappear from the disciplinary record by analyzing the unfolding interaction between the canonical disciplinary history of sociology and Wikipedia. We argue that the uneven representation of women sociologists as (1) remembered, (2) neglected, (3) erased or, finally, (4) recovered is shaped by the emerging interactional space of knowledge production.",
keywords = "Big data, Canon, Disciplinary memory, Encyclopedia, Gender, Knowledge, Sociology, Wikipedia",
author = "Wei Luo and Julia Adams and Hannah Brueckner",
note = "Funding Information: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Swaine_Thomas and https://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/W._I._Thomas. Pages accessed on February 28, 2018. See Deegan (1991), pp. 400-408. Dorothy Swaine Thomas majored in economics and sociology at Barnard and received her doctorate from LSE. Swaine Thomas completed her dissertation in two years, and it was immediately accepted for publication. With a postdoctoral fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), she collaborated with her future husband W.I. Thomas on the influential book The Child in America (1928). She served in faculty and research positions in several top universities and was tenured at UC Berkeley. Mastering both quantitative and qualitative research skills, Swaine Thomas published in a wide range of topics including observational studies of social interaction; the Japanese–American internment of WWII, and population and economic growth. Besides the leading ASA honorific position, she was also the first female board member of the SSRC and was later its director. Funding Information: The authors gratefully acknowledge support for this research from the National Science Foundation (grant #1322971), research assistance from Yasmin Kakar, and comments from Scott Boorman, anonymous reviewers, participants in the Comparative Research Workshop at Yale Sociology, as well as from panelists and audience members at the Social Science History Association. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2018.",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1163/15691330-12341471",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "17",
pages = "519--556",
journal = "Comparative Sociology",
issn = "1569-1322",
publisher = "Brill Academic Publishers",
number = "5",
}