Interdisciplinary science
An interdisciplinary science is understood to be a permanently established, interdisciplinary field of science that is not assigned the rank of an academic discipline , but which is characterized by a certain form of division of labor between researchers with a focus on the disciplines involved.
The cause of interdisciplinary science are also science external influences in the selection and formulation of research topics; however, the choice of questions and their processing are justified , in contrast to transdisciplinarity , in the internal scientific discourse. There is often a fixed form of division of labor in interdisciplinary sciences. In particular, methods from one discipline (e.g. physics ) are used to deal with research questions from another discipline (e.g. biology ). Central is the development of a common system of criteria (with which e.g. the quality of the research work can be assessed) as well as the development of a common basis for mutual understanding.
Examples of interdisciplinary science are biophysics , literary sociology , party research , social economics or socioeconomics or molecular biology . Similarly, the term anthropology is also used as a generic term for the diverse disciplines and schools of the human sciences .
See also
literature
- Jungert, Michael / Romfeld, Elsa / Sukopp, Thomas / Voigt, Uwe (eds.): Interdisciplinary. Theory, practice, problems. Darmstadt 2010.
- Laudel, Grit: Interdisciplinary Research Cooperation: Conditions for Success of the Collaborative Research Center as an institution . Berlin 1999.
- Frodeman, Robert / Thompson Klein, Julie / Mitcham, Carl (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity. Oxford 2010.