摘要：An investigation of social affiliation among researchers is particularly promising in the case of pedagogy. This is facilitated by its interdisciplinary nature, diversity in terms of theoretical perspectives and research areas. This makes it a convenient laboratory to allow observation of social processes of inclusion and exclusion in the research community focused on the education. The application of self-categorization theory provides an opportunity to perceive the factors determining the formation and maintenance of environmental factions and individual involvement of individual representatives. Thus, the theory creates a convenient perspective of inclusion and exlusion measurement in the social environment of science, especially using solutions based on the idea of distance like a visual scale.
