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Interdisciplinary collaboration in the social sciences is obviously essential to scientifi c progress, but discontent and practical diffi culties hinder collaboration in research and training. Many of the problems arise from the failure in the separate disciplines to understand the basis on which collaboration is necessary and possible. In an eff ort to shed light on the situation, these original essays by eminent scholars-economists, geographers, psychologists, political scientists,sociologists, anthropologists, and others-demonstrate eff ective means of achieving interdisciplinary coordination in studying human behavior and delineating promising areas-for cooperative research. Th e book provides a sophisticated guide to the nature of knowledge in social science as applied to its core disciplines. Interdisciplinary collaboration in the social sciences is obviously essential to scientific progress, but discontent and practical difficulties hinder collaboration in research and training. Many of the problems arise from the failure in the separate disciplines to understand the basis on which collaboration is necessary and possible. In an effort to shed light on the situation, these original essays by eminent scholars - economists, geographers, psychologists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, and others - demonstrate effective means of achieving interdisciplinary coordination in studying human behavior and delineating promising areas - for cooperative research. The book provides a sophisticated guide to the nature of knowledge in social science as applied to its core disciplines. Since the social sciences separately are studying and theorizing about many of the same kinds of human behavior, the contributors propose that scholars can avoid possible duplication of effort and increase the validity of their formulations by consulting the related findings and methodology from other disciplines before embarking on a research problem. The contributors maintain that this interchange, by broadening the total knowledge of each discipline, represents the best approach toward fulfilling the goals of social scientific inquiry. The individual chapters give valuable insight into the theoretical overlaps among the disciplines and outline specific research areas - such as group interaction, political attitudes, and intergroup relations - that require interdisciplinary cooperation to produce valid formulations. A major step toward creating a dialogue among disciplines, the book will enable every social scientist to understand more clearly the current state and future direction of interdisciplinary relationships and their indispensable future in social scientific thought 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