Creative marginality
Subtitle: innovation at the intersections of social sciences
By: Mattei Dogan and Robert Pahre.
Contributors: Pahre, Robert.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Interdisciplinary research.; Social sciences -- Research.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-248) and indexes.
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: Introduction; label: Part One
title: Scientific Innovation and Obsolescence; label: 1
title: Defining Innovation in the Social Sciences; label: 2
title: Patrimonies; label: 3
title: The Paradox of Density; label: 4
title: Does Citation Measure Innovation?; label: 5
title: Cemetaries for Books; label: Part Two
title: From Specialization and Fragmentation to Hybridization; label: 6
title: Specialization in Social Science; label: 7
title: Hybridization; label: 8
title: Fragmentation by Geographical Area Versus Analytical Fragmentation; label: Part Three
title: The Crumbling Walls of the Formal Disciplines; label: 9
title: The Fate of the Formal Disciplines: From Coherence to Dispersion; label: 10
title: Why Interdisciplinarity Is a False Notion; label: Part Four
title: The Interpenetration of Disciplines: The Processes of Hybridization; label: 11
title: The Diffusion of Concepts Across Disciplines; label: 12
title: Borrowing Methods; label: 13
title: The Impact of Technology; label: 14
title: The Cross-disciplinary Repercussions of Findings; label: 15
title: The Influence of Theories; label: 16
title: Perspectives, Paradigms, and Praxis; label: 17
title: Hybridization of Academic Journals; label: 18
title: The Balance of Trade Between the Disciplines; label: Part Five
title: Gallery of Hybrids: Creative Marginals; label: 19
title: Three Ideal Types of Social Scientists; label: 20
title: Intellectual Migration Across Disciplines; label: Part Six
title: Crossroads: Four Illustrations; label: 21
title: Historical Sociology and Sociological History; label: 22
title: Junctions Between the Social Sciences and Life Sciences; label: 23
title: International Political Economy: A Fusion of Several Subfields; label: 24
title: The Hesitant Exchange Between Economics and Psychology; label: Final Remarks
title: The New Kaleidoscope