Detailed Contents______

Preface
Allen F. Repko, Rick Szostak, William H. Newell
Audience
The Research Model
Outline of Chapters
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: The Interdisciplinary
Research Process
Part II: Drawing on Disciplinary Insights
Chapter 2: Jewish Marriage as an Expression of
Israels Conflicted Identity
Chapter 3: The Metropolitan Problem in
Interdisciplinary Perspective
Chapter 4: Mektoub: When Art Meets History,
Philosophy, and Linguistics
Part III: Approaches to Integration
Chapter 5: Integrating Theory-Based Insights
on the Causes of Suicide Terrorism
Chapter 6: An Interdisciplinary Analysis
of the Causes of Economic Growth
Chapter 7: Why We Talk: An Interdisciplinary
Approach to the Evolutionary
Origin of Language
Chapter 8: Understanding Human Action:
Integrating Meanings, Mechanisms,
Causes, and Contexts
Chapter 9: Integrative Theory in Criminology
Applied to the Complex Social Problem
of School Violence
Chapter 10: Research Integration:
A Comparative Knowledge Base
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About the Editors

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About the Contributors

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PART I INTRODUCTION
1. The Interdisciplinary Research Process
Rick Szostak
Introduction
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
Conclusion

PART II DRAWING ON DISCIPLINARY INSIGHTS

2. Jewish Marriage as an Expression of Israels Conflicted Identity
Marilyn R. Tayler
Introduction
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
The Insights of Religion
The Insights of Political Science
The Insights of Law
Integrating Insights and Producing an Interdisciplinary
Understanding
Step 7: Identify Conflicts Between Insights
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Sources of Conflict Between Disciplines
Step 8: Create or Discover Common Ground
Nature and Extent of Conflicts
The Discovery/Creation of Common Ground
Step 9: Integrate Insights
Legal Pragmatism Theory Supported by
Covenant Theory as the Basis for Integration
Step 10: Produce an Interdisciplinary
Understanding of the Problem and Test It
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3. The Metropolitan Problem in Interdisciplinary Perspective

Michan Andrew Connor
Introduction
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
Public Choice Theory and Public Policy
Normative and Analytical Critiques of
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 Theory 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
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4. Mektoub: When Art Meets History, Philosophy, and Linguistics

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Mieke Bal
Introduction
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How to Develop a Research Question
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The End: Philosophy of Cinema
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Poetry: A Cinema of Literature
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Where Are We? Geography of Setting
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Schizophrenia: Psychiatry of Cinema
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Tragedy: Ethics of Theater
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Mektoub
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Conclusion
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PART III APPROACHES TO INTEGRATION

5. Integrating Theory-Based Insights on the
Causes of Suicide Terrorism
Allen F. Repko
Introduction
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)
The Theory-Based Insights of Psychology
The Theory-Based Insights of Political Science
The Theory-Based Insight of
Cultural Anthropology
The Theory-Based Insight of History
A Taxonomy of Theory-Based Insights
Integrating Causal Explanations (Steps 7 to 9)
Identifying Conflicts in Insights and
Locating Their Sources (Step 7)
Conflicting Disciplinary Perspectives
Conflicting Disciplinary Assumptions
Conflicting Disciplinary Theories
Summary of These Theories and How Their
Assumptions Conflict
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 (Step 10)
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of Economic Growth
Rick Szostak
Introduction
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
Conclusion
7. Why We Talk: An Interdisciplinary Approach
to the Evolutionary Origin of Language
Ria van der Lecq
Introduction
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)
The Theory of Evolution
Contemporary Theories
Integrating Insights and Producing an Interdisciplinary
Understanding (Steps 7 to 10)
Identifying Conflicts Between Insights
and Their Sources (Step 7)
A Taxonomy of Conflicting Insights
Conflicting Concepts
Conflicting Assumptions
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Creating Common Ground Using Concepts

Creating Common Ground Using Assumptions
Integrating Disciplinary Insights (Step 9)
An Interdisciplinary Understanding of the
Primary Function of Language (Step 10)
Lessons for Interdisciplinary Practice
Conclusion
8. Understanding Human Action: Integrating
Meanings, Mechanisms, Causes, and Contexts
Machiel Keestra
Introduction
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 Insights 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
Conclusion
9. Integrative Theory in Criminology Applied to the
Complex Social Problem of School Violence
Stuart Henry and Nicole L. Bracy
Introduction
Creating Common Ground(s) and a Comprehensive
Understanding in Criminology
Conceptual Integration
Propositional Integration
Causal Integration
Cross-Level Integration

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and School Violence
Violence as a Complex Problem
Integrative Theory in Criminology as an
Explanation of Violence/School Violence
Integrative Analysis of School Violence as a
Cumulative Reciprocal Causal Process
Conclusion
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 From TDR Integration
Conclusion
1. The Principle of Variance
No Universal Formula for Integration
2. The Principle of Platforming
Interaction Structure, Integration Potential,
Fundament
3. The Principle of Iteration
Moving Back and Forth, Bootstrapping,
Triangulation, Reflective
Balance, and Weaving
4. The Principle of Communicative Rationality
Shared Language Culture, Social Learning,
Translation-Negotiation-Mediation,
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Conclusion
William H. Newell
Introduction
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
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Author Index

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Subject Index

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