Case studies in interdisciplinary research / [edited by] Allen F. Repko, William H. Newell, Rick Szostak.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Allen F. Repko, Rick Szostak, William H. Newell -- Audience -- The research model -- Outline of chapters -- Part I. Introduction: -- 1. The interdisciplinary research process / Rick Szostak -- Should interdisciplinarians identify such a process -- Structure versus freedom -- The role of shared methodologies -- Revolutionary versus normal science -- Interdisciplinarity and training -- Strategic interdisciplinarity -- What would an interdisciplinary research process look like? Interdisciplinary research -- process and theory -- The ecology of team science -- Integration and implementation sciences -- Types of interdisciplinarity -- Transdisciplinary perspectives -- Part II. Drawing on disciplinary insights -- 2. Jewish marriage as an expression of Israel's conflicted identity / Marilyn R. Tayler -- Drawing on disciplinary insights -- Step 1. State the focus question -- Step 2. Justify using an interdisciplinary approach -- Steps 3 and 4. Identify relevant disciplines and conduct a literature search -- Step 5. Develop adequacy in each relevant discipline -- Step 6. Analyze the problem and evaluate each insight into it -- Integrating insights and producing an interdisciplinary understanding -- Step 7. Identify conflicts between insights and their sources -- Step 8. Create or discover common ground -- Step 9. Integrate insights -- Step 10. Produce an interdisciplinary understanding of the problem and test it -- 3. The metropolitan problem in interdisciplinary perspective / Michan Andrew Connor -- Cities and suburbs -- spatial framings of metropolitan issues -- Historical perspectives on metropolitan formation -- Methodological patterns in urban and suburban history -- Intradisciplinary debate and the new suburban history -- Parallels between the new suburban history and urban history -- Alternate spatial framings in the social sciences -- Metropolitics -- Fighting fragmentation -- Behavioralism and public choice theory -- Critical legal studies -- The power of local government and boundaries -- The limits of social science perspectives on metropolitan formation -- The social production of metropolitan Los Angeles -- Theory, practice, and metropolitan space -- the career of public choice in Los Angeles County -- The rule of homes -- The culture of a public choice metropolis -- The image of homes mediates political contradictions -- Metropolitan political conflicts under public choice theory -- Mektoub -- When art meets history, philosophy, and linguistics / Mieke Bal -- How to develop a research question -- The end -- Philosophy of cinema -- Poetry -- a cinema of literature -- Where are we? -- Geography of setting -- Schizophrenia -- Psychiatry of cinema -- Tragedy -- Ethics of theater -- Mektoub -- Part III. Approaches to integration -- 5. Integrating theory-based insights on the causes of suicide terrorism / Allen F. Repko -- Drawing on disciplinary insights (steps 1 to 6) -- Identifying the most relevant disciplines (step 3) and conducting the full-scale literature search (step 4) -- Developing adequacy in each relevant discipline (step 5) -- Analyzing the problem and evaluating each insight into it (step 6) -- A taxonomy of theory-based insights -- Integrating causal explanations (steps 7 to 9) -- Identifying conflicts in insights and locating their sources (step 7) -- Creating common ground (step 8) -- Constructing a more comprehensive understanding (step 9) -- A statement of the more comprehensive theory itself -- Lessons for interdisciplinary practice -- The final step -- 6. An interdisciplinary analysis of the causes of economic growth / Rick Szostak -- Identify an interdisciplinary research question -- Identifying relevant phenomena, theories, methods, and disciplines -- Evaluating disciplinary insights -- Creating common ground -- The proximate causes themselves -- Trade and growth -- Technology and growth -- Institutions -- Culture and growth -- Networks -- Social structure -- Community development -- Emergent properties -- Lessons for interdisciplinary practice -- Reflection and communication -- 7. Why we talk -- an interdisciplinary approach to the evolutionary origin of language / Ria van der Lecq -- Beginning the research process (steps 1 to 4) -- Framing the research question (step 1) -- Justifying an interdisciplinary approach (step 2) -- Identifying relevant disciplines (step 3) and conducting an in-depth literature search (step 4) -- Drawing on disciplinary insights on the primary function of language (steps 5 to 6) -- Developing adequacy in each relevant discipline (step 5) -- Evaluating disciplinary insights (step 6) -- Integrating insights and producing an interdisciplinary understanding (steps 7 to 10) Identifying conflicts between insights and their sources (step 7) -- Creating common ground (step 8) -- Integrating disciplinary insights (step 9) -- An interdisciplinary understanding of the primary function of language (step 10) -- Lessons for interdisciplinary practice -- 8. Understanding human action -- integrating meanings, mechanisms, causes, and contexts / Machiel Keestra -- Mechanism-based explanation in brief -- Drawing on disciplinary insights (steps 1 to 6) -- Defining the problem -- decomposition of action understanding -- Justify using an interdisciplinary approach -- action understanding as a multilevel phenomenon -- Identify disciplines most relevant to the mechanism-based approach -- Conduct an in-depth literature search -- Develop adequacy concerning the relevant components, operations, and interactions of the mechanism -- Analyze the phenomenon and evaluate each insight into it -- Integrating insights (steps 7 to 10) -- Identify conflicts between insight and locate their sources -- Create or discover common ground via a mechanism -- Integrate insights into a mechanism-based explanation -- Produce a mechanism-based explanation of human action understanding and test it -- 9. Integrative theory in criminology applied to the complex social problem of school violence / Stuart Henry and Nicole L. Bracy -- Creating common ground(s) and a comprehensive understanding in criminology -- Conceptual integration -- Propositional integration -- Causal integration -- Cross-level integration -- Toward an integrated analysis of violence and school violence -- Violence as a complex problem -- Integrative theory in criminology as a explanation of violence/school violence -- Integrative analysis of school violence as a cumulative reciprocal causal process -- 10. Research integration -- a comparative knowledge base / Julie Thompson Klein -- Historical beginnings -- Transdisciplinarity and the shift to complexity and problem solving -- Means of integration -- Lessons for TDR integration -- Conclusion -- The principle of variance -- No universal formula for integration -- The principle of platforming -- Interaction structure, integration potential, fundament -- The principle of iteration -- Moving back and forth, bootstrapping, triangulation, reflective balance, and weaving -- The principle of communicative rationality -- Shared language culture, social learning, translation-negotiation-mediation, intersubjectivity -- Conclusion / William H. Newell -- Interdisciplinary research process across the academy -- Conceptions of interdisciplinarity across the academy -- Modifications to the interdisciplinary process -- Operationalizing the interdisciplinary process -- Meta-discussions of interdisciplinary research process.

Interdisciplinary research is a burgeoning field, largely due to its ability to tackle complex problems facing humanity that extend beyond a single disciplinary perspective and require interdisciplinary thinking and research for their resolution. Case Studies in Interdisciplinary Research successfully applies the model of the interdisciplinary research process outlined by author Allen F. Repko in Interdisciplinary Research (SAGE, ©2008) to a wide spectrum of challenging research questions. Self-contained case studies, written by leaders in the field and utilizing best-practice techniques in conducting interdisciplinary research, show students how to apply the interdisciplinary research process to a variety of problems. --Book Jacket.

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