ABSTRACT
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 demon
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|43 pages
Scientific Innovation and Obsolescence
part Two|32 pages
From Specialization and Fragmentation to Hybridization
part Three|37 pages
The Crumbling Walls of the Formal Disciplines
part Four|47 pages
The Interpenetration of Disciplines: The Processes of Hybridization
part Five|15 pages
Gallery of Hybrids: Creative Marginals
part Six|52 pages
Crossroads: Four Illustrations
