Creative marginality : innovation at the intersections of social sciences
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Creative marginality : innovation at the intersections of social sciences
Westview Press, 1990
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-248) and indexes
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Description
Tracing the nine formal social science disciplines - political science, sociology, economics, history, anthropology, philosophy, geography, psychology, and linguistics - through their cycles of growth, specialization, fragmentation and hybridization, Dogan and Pahre reject the notion of catch-all "interdisciplinary" research. They set out to demonstrate that in moving from the centre to the periphery of a discipline, crossing its borders and penetrating the field of another, a scholar has a better chance to innovate.
Table of Contents
- Scientific innovation and obsolescence
- from specialization and fragmentation to hybridization
- the crumbling walls of the formal disciplines
- the interpenetration of disciplines - the process of hybridization
- gallery of hybrids - creative marginals
- crossroads - four illustrations.
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