Interdisciplinary Relationships in the Social Sciences

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Preface -- Contents -- PART I EXPLORING ORIENTATIONS -- 1 Interdisciplinary Coordination as a Validity Check: Retrospect and Prospects -- 2 Theory-Oriented Research in Natural Settings: The Best of Both Worlds for Social Psychology -- 3 Theoretical and Substantive Biases in Sociological Research -- 4 Contiguous Problem Analysis: An Approach to Systematic Theories about Social Organization -- 5 Myth and Interrelationship in Social Science: Illustrated Through Anthropology and Sociology -- PART II ILLUSTRATIVE PROBLEM AREAS -- 6 Interdisciplinary Thinking and the Small World Problem -- 7 Biological Basis of Human Warfare: An Interdisciplinary Problem -- 8 The Formation of National Attitudes: A Social-Psychological Perspective -- 9 Phenomenology and Crosscultural Research -- 10 Personality Theory and Social Science -- 11 Growth, Development, and Political Monuments -- PART III PERSPECTIVES ACROSS DISCIPLINES -- 12 The Borderlands of Geography as a Social Science -- 13 Human Geography and Neighboring Disciplines -- 14 Linguistics and the Social Sciences -- 15 Some Relations between Psychiatry and Political Science -- 16 Obstacles to a Rapprochement between History and Sociology: A Sociologist's View -- 17 History and Theory: The Need for Decadence -- PART IV ORGANIZATIONAL RIDDLES -- 18 Observations on Interdisciplinary Work in the Social Sciences -- 19 Ethnocentrism of Disciplines and the Fish-Scale Model of Omniscience -- Name Index -- Subject Index