Pluralistic Collaboration in Science and Technology: Reviewing Knowledge Systems, Culture, Norms, and Work Styles
dc.contributor.author | Halfon, Saul E. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Sovacool, Benjamin | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-08T16:55:57Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2023-02-08T16:55:57Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2022-10-10 | en |
dc.date.updated | 2023-02-08T16:35:07Z | en |
dc.description.abstract | This paper challenges the language of “interdisciplinarity,” suggesting “pluralistic collaboration” as a better alternative. Interdisciplinarity, team science, and transdisciplinarity frame academic and problem-focused collaborations narrowly, overemphasizing epistemology, downplaying extra-disciplinary divides and nonacademic collaborators, and either ignoring or psychologizing individual-level phenomena. We first paint a picture of the tensions and divides that exist in pluralistic collaborations, in three dimensions—epistemic, cultural, and normative—using a series of literature reviews to simultaneously map and extend these dimensions. We then introduce and explore a fourth dimension—academic work styles. Individual level considerations of collaboration in the literature generally rely on psychological types. We explore what a more sociologically oriented approach to individual dynamics within collaborations would look like by identifying and exploring four general academic work styles: isolationist, imperialist, pragmatist, and pluralist. We conclude by emphasizing and reflecting on pluralistic collaboration. Pluralism exists along a range of dimensions, and pluralizing or homogenizing different dimensions (pluralizing pluralism) can produce diverse effects on the outcome of interdisciplinary collaboration. While we thus advocate for pluralism along a greater range of dimensions when addressing complex problems, we suggest that over-pluralization can be a problem. | en |
dc.description.version | Accepted version | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439221124663 | en |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1552-8251 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0162-2439 | en |
dc.identifier.orcid | Halfon, Saul [0000-0001-5630-3164] | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/113729 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | SAGE | en |
dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
dc.title | Pluralistic Collaboration in Science and Technology: Reviewing Knowledge Systems, Culture, Norms, and Work Styles | en |
dc.title.serial | Science, Technology, and Human Values | en |
dc.type | Article - Refereed | en |
dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
dc.type.other | Article | en |
pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech | en |
pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/All T&R Faculty | en |
pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | en |
pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciences/Science and Technology in Society | en |
pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciences/CLAHS T&R Faculty | en |
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