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3.1 Multidisciplinary Juxtaposition and Alignment 3.1 Multidisciplinary Juxtaposition and Alignment
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3.1.1 Encyclopedic, Indiscriminate, and Pseudo Forms 3.1.1 Encyclopedic, Indiscriminate, and Pseudo Forms
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3.1.2 Contextualizing, Informed, and Composite Relationships 3.1.2 Contextualizing, Informed, and Composite Relationships
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3.2 Interdisciplinary Integration and Collaboration 3.2 Interdisciplinary Integration and Collaboration
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3.2.1 Methodological Interdisciplinarity 3.2.1 Methodological Interdisciplinarity
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3.2.2 Theoretical Interdisciplinarity 3.2.2 Theoretical Interdisciplinarity
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3.3 Bridge Building versus Restructuring 3.3 Bridge Building versus Restructuring
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3.3.1 Interdisciplinary Fields, Interdisciplines, and Hybrid Specializations 3.3.1 Interdisciplinary Fields, Interdisciplines, and Hybrid Specializations
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3.4 Instrumental versus Critical Interdisciplinarity 3.4 Instrumental versus Critical Interdisciplinarity
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3.5 Transdisciplinarity 3.5 Transdisciplinarity
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3.6 The Reportage of Change 3.6 The Reportage of Change
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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References References
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9 Integrating the Social Sciences: Area Studies, Quantitative Methods, and Problem-Oriented Research
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3 Typologies of Interdisciplinarity: The Boundary Work of Definition
Get accessJulie Thompson Klein is a professor of humanities emerita and faculty fellow for Interdisciplinary Development at Wayne State University. Holding a PhD in English from the University of Oregon, Klein was president of the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies. Her books include Interdisciplinarity (1990), Crossing Boundaries (1996), Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity (2005), Creating Interdisciplinary Campus Cultures (2010), and Interdisciplining Digital Humanities (2015).
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Published:06 March 2017
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Abstract
The dominant structure of knowledge in the twentieth century was division into domains of disciplinary specialization. In the latter half of the century this system was challenged by an increasing number of interdisciplinary activities. This chapter examines typologies of interdisciplinary activities, identifying patterns of consensus and fault lines of debate from the first major classification scheme in 1970 and continues to recent taxonomies that recognize new developments. The chapter compares similarities and differences in a framework of multidisciplinary juxtaposition and alignment of disciplines, interdisciplinary integration and collaboration, and transdisciplinary synthesis and trans-sector problem solving. It further distinguishes major variants of methodological versus theoretical interdisciplinarity, bridge building versus restructuring, and instrumental versus critical interdisciplinarity. Typologies are neither neutral nor static. They reflect choices of representation in a semantic web of differing purposes, contexts, organizational structures, and epistemological frameworks. They reassert, extend, interrogate, and reformulate existing classifications to address both ongoing and unmet needs.
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