Creative Marginality

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

• Introduction Part One: Scientific Innovation and Obsolescence 1. Defining Innovation in the Social Sciences 2. Patrimonies: Incremental Advance and the Distorting Effects of the "Star System" 3. The Paradox of Density 4. Does Citation Measure Innovation? 5. Cemeteries for Books Part Two: From Specialization and Fragmentation to Hybridization 6. Specialization in the Social Sciences 7. Hybridization: The Recombination of Fragments of the Social Sciences 8. Fragmentation by Geographical Area Versus Analytical Fragmentation Part Three: The Crumbling Walls of the Formal Disciplines 9. The Fate of the Formal Disciplines: From Coherence to Dispersion 10. Why Interdisciplinarity is a False Notion Part Four: The Interpenetration of Disciplines: The Processes of Hybridization 11. The Diffusion of Concepts Across Disciplines 12. Borrowing Methods 13. The Impact of Technology 14. The Cross-disciplinary Repercussions of Findings 15. The Influence of Theories 16. Perspectives, Paradigms, and Praxis 17. Hybridization of Academic Journals 18. The Balance of Trade Between Disciplines Part Five: Gallery of Hybrids: Creative Marginals 19. Three Ideal Types of Social Scientists 20. Intellectual Migration Across Disciplines Part Six: Crossroads: Four Illustrations 21. Historical Sociology and Sociological History 22. Junctions Between the Social Sciences and Life Sciences 23. International Political Economy: A Fusion of Several Subfields 24. The Hesitant Exchange Between Economics and Psychology