RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Who Gets Accepted and Who Gets Rejected? Status in the Production of Social Science
JF RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
FD Russell Sage Foundation
SP 192
OP 209
DO 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.7.10
VO 8
IS 7
A1 Kevin Nazar
A1 Roberta Spalter-Roth
A1 James C. Witte
YR 2022
UL http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/8/7/192.abstract
AB This article considers science as a stratified social system that may reflect and reproduce broader social patterns of stratification. Analyses are based on a unique data archive with more than ten thousand published and unpublished manuscripts and the associated peer reviews, all submitted between 1990 and 2010 to the American Sociological Review, a leading journal in the discipline. The analysis considers how race, gender, manuscript topic, and institutional affiliation are associated over time with publication decisions. These decisions shape the future of the discipline and have broader social implications. The findings show patterns that may limit emerging perspectives in the discipline and provides recommendations as to how the discipline can not only make the stratification system more permeable, but also emphasizes the significance of flattening the hierarchy altogether.