TY - JOUR
T1 - Specializing in interdisciplinarity
T2 - The committee on social thought as the university of chicago's antidote to compartmentalization in the social sciences
AU - Emmett, Ross B.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The social sciences at the University of Chicago are renowned for their leadership in the development of empirical investigation in their respective disciplines. The postwar Chicago school of economics is only the best known of the efforts at that university to entrench specialized competencies in the faculty and students practicing a social scientific discipline. During the same period, the Committee on Social Thought emerged as an academic interdisciplinary unit in the humanities and social sciences. Ironically, the committee became the place in which one honed the competencies required for a particular type of interdisciplinarity.
AB - The social sciences at the University of Chicago are renowned for their leadership in the development of empirical investigation in their respective disciplines. The postwar Chicago school of economics is only the best known of the efforts at that university to entrench specialized competencies in the faculty and students practicing a social scientific discipline. During the same period, the Committee on Social Thought emerged as an academic interdisciplinary unit in the humanities and social sciences. Ironically, the committee became the place in which one honed the competencies required for a particular type of interdisciplinarity.
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U2 - 10.1215/00182702-2009-079
DO - 10.1215/00182702-2009-079
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79956250990
SN - 0018-2702
VL - 42
SP - 261
EP - 287
JO - History of Political Economy
JF - History of Political Economy
IS - SUPPL1
ER -