Intersection science

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An intersectional science is a scientific subject whose research areas and methods go beyond the narrow traditional subject boundaries of just one academic discipline.

A historical example is William Stern's concept of psychology , which he practiced as having a share in three areas, namely the humanities, social and life sciences. Another current example is the small university subject folklore , also known and represented in Germany as "European Ethnology" or "Empirical Cultural Studies".

Here four areas are integratively combined:

• a socio-historical approach (e.g. emigration research; "simple people"; cultural history museum education)
• an empirical, social science orientation (e.g. club research; "Gypsy" myth and reality)
• a Germanic origin (e.g. folk songs versus folk movement; fairy tale, myth, joke research)
• an ethnographic-cultural-scientific approach (e.g. flea markets; monuments, symbols in public space through the ages)

In times of the universally propagated interdisciplinarity , i.e. the desired, fruitful transgressions of the research approaches, little movement can be observed in the actual implementation of the same. Preservation of the existing professorships and mid-level structures usually prevents an increase in the development of intersection science . One could learn a lot from those subjects that have long learned to integrate the inner balance of divergent approaches in their own specialist discipline across borders.