Interdiscipline
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Conceptions
Giesecke (1981) says about educational research ("pedagogy") that is an "aporetic science", i.e. an interdiscipline.
Tengström (1993) emphases that cross-disciplinary research is a process, not a state or structure. He differentiates three levels of ambition regarding cross-disciplinary research:
- The pluridisciplinary or multidisciplinarity level
- The genuine cross-disciplinary level: interdisciplinarity
- The discipline-forming level transdisciplinarity
What is described here is a view of social fields as dynamic and changing. Library and information science is viewed as a field that started as a multidisciplinary approach based on literature, psychology, sociology, management, computer science etc., which is developing towards an academic discipline in its own right.
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Examples
- Biosemiotics
- Cryptography
- Demography
- "As a field with its own body of interrelated concepts, techniques, journals, and professional associations, demography is clearly a discipline. But by the nature of its subject matter and methods demography is just as clearly an 'interdiscipline', drawing heavily on biology and sociology for the study of fertility; on economics and geography for studies of migration; and on the health sciences for the study of mortality." (Stycos, 1989, vii).
- Forensic Kinesiology
- Genetic toxicology
- Humor and translation
- Information science
- In America information science and communication studies are considered two academic disciplines. In France, however, they are considered one interdiscipline. (See also).
- Planetary science
- Public health
- Social science in agriculture
- Sociolinguistics