A TERMINOLOGICAL APPROACH TO MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DOMAINS AND DISCIPLINARY AUTONOMY

Authors

  • Marita Kristiansen

Keywords:

multi-disciplinary domains, disciplinary autonomy, terminological analysis, organizational behaviour

Abstract

Today’s society is characterised by an increasing specialisation and the emergence of new disciplines. To be able to understand and mediate the content of these areas, it is important to be able to delineate them. Within this setting this article presents the main background and results from my doctoral study (Kristiansen 2004). The study addresses the question of what constitutes a scientific discipline and when is it possible to say that a particular discipline is autonomous. Secondly, the study investigates how such disciplinary autonomy can be determined.

The tradition of borrowing concepts as found in many social sciences, results in highly multi-disciplinary subject fields. It has therefore been an aim of the study to investigate the nature of social sciences in particular, with focus on their concepts. A major aim has been to see whether methods of conceptual analysis as described in terminology theory can offer a useful means of evaluating the autonomy status of a given discipline.

The point of departure for the conceptual analysis has been terminological methods as described in among others Laurén et al. 1997, which have been developed to enable an investigation of conceptual changes in the social sciences.

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2023-05-04

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Kristiansen, M. (2023). A TERMINOLOGICAL APPROACH TO MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DOMAINS AND DISCIPLINARY AUTONOMY. Terminology Science & Research Terminologie : Science Et Recherche, 17, 15–28. Retrieved from https://journal-eaft-aet.net/index.php/tsr/article/view/5826

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Vol. 17 (2006)

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