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This study of papers gathered from the proceedings presented at Spanish social psychology conferences explores the use of bibliometrics for studying scientific disciplines. A reference database of all the papers included in the conference proceedings of events held from 1983 to 2000 was generated and classified by thematic area, paper type and author institutional affiliation. The references were laid out on contingency tables and mapped with correspondence analysis. The results show that there is a growing number of co-authored papers and a predominance of empirical over theoretical paper types. Some institutions have a higher concentration of theoretical papers while others work mostly in the areas of organizational and health psychology. In terms of empirical papers, there is a tendency towards generating more qualitative-based studies over the span of time captured by this work. There are also a number of papers written about such areas as cultural psychology that points to the emergence of an interest in critical social psychology. Concluding remarks underline the role of conferences and scientific meetings as an important indicator of the dynamic development of a scientific discipline.

La afirmación de Georg Simmel que la extrañeza organiza la cercanía y la lejanía ayuda a entender cómo se utiliza la categoría social de estudiante universitario de primera generación (EUPG, primer integrante de la familia en la educación superior) en una universidad pública en el suroeste de Estados Unidos. El análisis de pertenencia categórica (MCA, Membership Categorazation Analysis) se aplica a datos etnográficos. Tanto unas categorías y unos dispositivos de diferencia se transforman en unos de distancia en una interacción donde una convención de reclutamiento se llega a sustituir por un apretón de manos entre un niño y algunos adultos en el pasillo de un centro estudiantil universitario. Estos mismos cambios se encuentran imbricados en el análisis de una secuencia de persistencia estudiantil en un DVD que fue producido por una institución de educación para atraer y reclutar a estudiantes. Como evidencia de unas prácticas glocales o del impacto global de unos gestos locales de contacto de unas políticas dirigidas hacia los EUPG (y otros) con la finalidad de la diversificación o la masificación del cuerpo estudiantil, éstas parecen coincidir con los proyectos de distribución y reconocimiento de la justicia social, mismos que se nos invitan a extendernos a través de distancias cortas y largas., Georg Simmel's assertion that strangeness organizes nearness and remoteness helps to understand how the social category of First Generation College Student (FGCS, first in the family to attend college) is used at a public university in the United States southwest. Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA) is applied to ethnographic data. Difference categories and devices morph into those of distance in an interaction where a recruitment convention substitutes for a handshake between a boy and some adults in the hallway of a student center. These changes imbricate with those found in the analysis of a student-persistence sequence of an educational marketing recruitment DVD. As evidence of glocal practice or the global impact of local contact gestures of student body diversification or massification policies directed at FGCSs (and others), they appear to coincide with distribution and recognition social justice projects that are inviting us to reach out across distances, short and long.