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August 2005, Vol 95, No. 8 | American Journal of Public Health 1330-1337
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.046094

PUBLIC HEALTH MATTERS

The Privileging of Communitarian Ideas: Citation Practices and the Translation of Social Capital Into Public Health Research

Spencer Moore, PhD, MPH, Alan Shiell, PhD, Penelope Hawe, PhD and Valerie A. Haines, PhD

Spencer Moore is with the Centre for Health and Policy Studies, Alan Shiell is with the Department of Community Health Sciences, and Valerie A. Haines is with the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. Penelope Hawe is with the Centre for the Study of Social and Physical Environments and Health, Markin Institute of Public Health, University of Calgary and the School of Population Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Spencer Moore, PhD, MPH, Centre de recherche du CHUM, Axe santé des populations et épidémiologi.e., sociale, 3875 St-Urbain, 3e étage, porte 3-30, Montréal, QC, H2W 1V1 Canada (e-mail: spencer.moore{at}umontreal.ca).

The growing use of social science constructs in public health invites reflection on how public health researchers translate, that is, appropriate and reshape, constructs from the social sciences. To assess how 1 recently popular construct has been translated into public health research, we conducted a citation network and content analysis of public health articles on the topic of social capital.

The analyses document empirically how public health researchers have privileged communitarian definitions of social capital and marginalized network definitions in their citation practices. Such practices limit the way public health researchers measure social capital’s effects on health. The application of social science constructs requires that public health scholars be sensitive to how their own citation habits shape research and knowledge.




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