Hot Spots and Hot Moments in Scientific Collaborations and Social Movements

Autor/inn/en	Parker, John N.; Hackett, Edward J.
Titel	Hot Spots and Hot Moments in Scientific Collaborations and Social Movements
Quelle	In: American Sociological Review, 77 (2012) 1, S.21-44 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0003-1224
DOI	10.1177/0003122411433763
Schlagwörter	Scientific Research; Cooperation; Psychological Patterns; Creativity; Social Change; Organizations (Groups); Group Dynamics; Case Studies; Interviews + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Co-operation; Kooperation; Kreativität; Sozialer Wandel; Gruppendynamik; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik
Abstract	Emotions are essential but little understood components of research; they catalyze and sustain creative scientific work and fuel the scientific and intellectual social movements (SIMs) that propel scientific change. Adopting a micro-sociological focus, we examine how emotions shape two intellectual processes central to all scientific work: conceiving creative ideas and managing skepticism. We illustrate these processes through a longitudinal study of the Resilience Alliance, a tightly networked coherent group collaborating at the center of a burgeoning scientific social movement in the environmental sciences. We show how emotions structured and were structured by the group's growth and development, and how socio-emotive processes facilitated the rapid production of highly creative science and helped overcome skepticism by outsiders. Hot spots and hot moments--that is, brief but intense periods of collaboration undertaken in remote and isolated settings--fueled the group's scientific performance and drove the SIM. Paradoxically, however, the same socio-emotive processes that ignited and sustained creative scientific research also made skepticism more likely to occur and more difficult to manage. Similarly, emotions and social bonding were essential for the group's growth and development, but increased size and diversity have the potential to erode the affective culture that generated initial successes. (Contains 2 figures and 25 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10