Pluralistic Collaboration in Science and Technology: Reviewing Knowledge Systems, Culture, Norms, and Work Styles

dc.contributor.authorHalfon, Saul E.en
dc.contributor.authorSovacool, Benjaminen
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-08T16:55:57Zen
dc.date.available2023-02-08T16:55:57Zen
dc.date.issued2022-10-10en
dc.date.updated2023-02-08T16:35:07Zen
dc.description.abstractThis 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.versionAccepted versionen
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/01622439221124663en
dc.identifier.eissn1552-8251en
dc.identifier.issn0162-2439en
dc.identifier.orcidHalfon, Saul [0000-0001-5630-3164]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/113729en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGEen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.titlePluralistic Collaboration in Science and Technology: Reviewing Knowledge Systems, Culture, Norms, and Work Stylesen
dc.title.serialScience, Technology, and Human Valuesen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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