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June 4, 2026Open Access

Examining Semantic Shifts of Sociological Papers from 1940 to 2020 Using Text Embeddings

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TYTianle Ye

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Overview

Investigates semantic shifts in sociological discourse, suggesting ongoing subprocesses in publications.

Key Points

  • The research aims to examine how the meanings in sociological papers have changed over eight decades.
  • Analyzed papers from American Sociological Review and American Journal of Sociology from 1940 to 2020 using text embedding models.
  • Converted documents into high-dimensional embeddings for analysis.
  • Semantic meanings in sociology have gradually shifted away from earlier decades.
  • Twenty-first century studies show weak semantic relationships with those from the 1940s and 1950s.
  • Sociology's development resembles multiple ongoing subprocesses rather than distinct phases.

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Tianle Ye (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a21171dd499ed480b16ffb3https://doi.org/10.6082/jbcbs-d4w96
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