Creative Marginality: Innovation At The Intersections Of Social Sciences

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

Mattei Dogan is Scientific Director at the National Centre of Scientific Research, Paris, and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. ROBERT PAHRE is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the European Union Centre at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA