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Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SPA3001: Debates, Issues and Practices
This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Barry, A. and Born, G. (eds) (2013). Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences. London and New York: Routledge.
Frickel, S., Albert, M. and Prainsack, B. (eds) (2017) Investigationg Interdisciplinary Collaboration. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Lury, C. et al. (eds) (2018). Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Methodology. London and New York: Routledge.
Anthropology and Interdisciplinarity
Bendix, R.F., Bizer, K. and Noyes, D. (2017). Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Guide for the Academy. University of Illinois Press
Engelke, M (2017). Think Like an Anthropologist. Pelican
Hendry, J. (1999). An introduction to social anthropology: Other people’s worlds. Macmillan.
Monaghan, J. and Just, P. (2000.) Social and cultural anthropology: A very short introduction (Vol. 15). Oxford Paperbacks.
Sociology and Interdisciplinarity
Alexander, Jeffrey C., Kenneth Thompson, and Laura Desfor Edles (eds). (2012). A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology: Culture and Society in Transition (Second Edition). Boulder, London: Paradigm Publishers.
Bauman, Z. and May, T. (2001) Thinking Sociologically. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Polity
Elias, N. (1978) What is Sociology? New York: Columbia University Press
Giddens, Anthony (ed.) 1992. Human societies: An Introductory Reader in Sociology. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Lemert, C. (2012) Social Things: An Introduction to the Sociological life, 5th edition, London: Rowman & Littlefields
Karen O'Reilly (2009) For interdisciplinarity and a disciplined, professional sociology, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 22:2, 219-232,
Burawoy, M. (2013) Sociology and Interdisciplinarity: The Promise and the Perils. Philippine Sociological Review, 61, 7-20. http://burawoy.berkeley.edu/Universities/Interdisciplinarity.pdf
Lyle, K. Shaping the Future of Sociology: The Challenge of Interdisciplinarity beyond the Social Sciences. Sociology, 51, 1169-1185.
Philosophy and Interdisciplinarity
Crowley, S.J., Gonnerman, C., and O’Rourke, M. (2016), ‘Cross-Disciplinary Research as a Platform for Philosophical Research’, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2(2):344-363
Hoffman, M.H.G., Schmidt, J.C., and Nersessian, N.J. (2013), ‘Philosophy of and as interdisciplinarity’, Synthese, 190(11):1857-1864
Frodeman, R. (2013), ‘Philosophy dedisciplined’, Synthese, 190(11):1917-1936
Mäki, U. (2016), ‘Philosophy of interdisciplinarity. What? Why? How?’, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 6(3):327-342.
Priest, G. (2006), ‘What is Philosophy?’, Philosophy, 81(316):189-207
Dotson, K. (2012), ‘Well, Yes and No: A Reply to Priest’, Comparative Philosophy, 3(2):10-15
Criminology and Interdisciplinarity
Walsh, A. and Ellis, L. (2006). Criminology: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Sage
Ellis, L., R. Hartley and Walsh, A. (2010) Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Rowman & Littlefield
Young, J. (2011) The Criminological Imagination. Polity.
Jefferey, C. R. (1978). Criminology As An Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science. Criminology, 16, 2, 149-169.
Science and Technology Studies and Interdisciplinarity
Biagioli, M. ed. (1999).The Science Studies Reader. Routledge.
Hess, D.J. (1997). Science Studies: An Advanced Introduction. New York University Press,
Latour, B. (1987). Science in Action, Open University Press
Sergio Sismondo, S. (2003). An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies. Blackwell.
Dear. P. and Jasanoff, S. (2010). Dismantling Boundaries in Science and Technology Studies, Isis: Journal of the History of Science in Society 101(4):759-774
Frodeman, R.; Thompson Klein, J.; Mitcham, C. y Tuana, N. (2007): “Interdisciplinary studies in science, technology and society: New directions: Science, Humanities, Policy”, Technology in Society, 29, 145-152.
Calvert, J. and Schyfter, P. (2017). What can science and technology studies learn from art and design? Reflections on ‘Synthetic Aesthetics’. Social Studies of Science, 47(2): 195–215.