What is American sociology today? One answer lies in the content of the dissertations soc departments produce. From the most recent 1388 dissertations in ProQuest, here are the most common keywords students chose for them (full phrases and individual words)
@philipncohen
How did you generate this list? Is there some ProQuest query interface that made this directly?
Or did you get a list of titles and then processed further? I note that Genderwatch shows up also in the "words" column, not just the "phrases" ones. Honestly why GenderWatch should be a phrase is a bit mysterious.
Also, if you have time for one more question, why 1388 recent dissertations, is that due to some date cutoff?
@tobychev uni subscribers can export metadata from ProQuest. You have to do it in chunks. My colleague Micah Altman and I got back to beginning of 2020, so that's the count. It's lots of clicks and waiting. It's a custom query: dissertations from US departments with Sociology in their title. There is a keywords field that has strings of terms separated by commas. Don't know how GenderWatch got in there. The field otherwise seems self-generated (there are many mis-spellings). Will share all this.
@philipncohen As a thanks for that answer! In exchange I offer the top 50 keywords for dissertations at Master or Bachelor level in Sweden in the subject category "Sociology", written in English and published after 2019-12-10 up until last Friday (n=555):
@tobychev it's a proquest product - possibly keyword snuck in by the company