Cartographie Du Premier Congres De L'Asf Avec La Methode Des Mots Associes

Abstract

Cartography of the First Congress of the AFS Using the Method of Associated Words: The 2004 congress of the French Sociological Association (AFS) included more than 1,000 presentations. Considered as representative of contemporary French sociology, the corpus of abstracts is analyzed with Colliope, a text-analysis computer program based on the associated-words method. A cartography of the entire corpus shows rather varied themes which are interconnected but weakly structured. The role of the term WOMAN as a pole, in the sense that it is the link between many different themes, stands out. Cartographies of sub-sets of abstracts, grouped together by thematic network (RT), reveal more structured results which remain strongly interconnected. It would be interesting to compare these results with those of other text-analysis approaches which should be done soon.