The uses of the Sociological classics – the citation analysis of Marx’s, Webers’s and Durkheim’s works in the journal Sociologija from 1997 to 2017

Abstract

This paper shows the results of sociological classics citation analysis in the journal Sociologija for the period 1997–2017. As a starting point of the research, we used the paper by vladimir vuletić and Aljoša Mimica Where Has the Third Classic Disappeared? The Citation Analysis of Marx’s, Webers’s and Durkheim’s Works in the Journal Sociologija from 1959 to 1996. This paper will represent the basis concerning the use of analysis citation methods in order to achieve data comparability within two time periods. The main goal of the paper is to identify classics citation trends in the past twenty years. to be more precise, we will try to address the issues of whether the aforementioned period represents merely an extrapolation of trends that have already been identified in the above-mentioned paper or whether there are new practices and patterns when citing Marx, Weber and Durkheim. Political and social changes have been rather dramatic and all-inclusive over the past twenty years. Thus, we find this task utterly compelling and substantial since it represents the reflection of Serbian (yugoslavian) sociology within a set time frame.

Овај рад ће представљати основу u pogledu upotrebe metoda analize citiranosti kako bi bila ostvarena upo- redivost podataka u dva vremenska perioda. Osnovni cilj našeg rada je iden- tifikovanje trendova citiranja klasika u poslednjih dvadeset godina. Tačnije, pokušaćemo da odgovorimo na pitanje da li navedeni period predstavlja samo ekstrapolaciju trendova koji su već uočeni u navedenom radu ili se javljaju nove prakse i obrasci pozivanja na Marksa, Vebera i Dirkema. Političke i društvene promene u poslednjih dvadeset godina su bile posebno dramatične i sveobuhvatne. Stoga nam se ovakav poduhvat čini posebno zanimljiv i značajan jer istovremeno predstavlja i sliku srpske (jugoslovenske) sociologije u datom vremenskom periodu.