A SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF CURRENT RESEARCHES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION.

In the present paper the assessment of the current level of research in the sociology of education is undertaken through a systematic analysis of a sample of published research papers. Three journals were judged to represent the largest number and the most rigorously reported of researches in the sociology of education during the period 1940-1950. The field of sociology of education itself has only one journal, the "Journal of Educational Sociology". Full evaluation of the production in any science demands some sort of assessment of the people making the contributions. Is the field of research in the sociology of education dominated by a few or are the contributions widely dispersed? What are the professional qualifications of the researchers? Another data concerning the authors which is available in the journals and in the direction of the professional organizations is the place of employment. The vast majority of authors were found to be associated with colleges and universities. The rest were distributed among public schools and state agencies.