Boundary-Work in the Health Research Field: Biomedical and Clinician Scientists' Perceptions of Social Science Research

Autor/inn/en	Albert, Mathieu; Laberge, Suzanne; Hodges, Brian D.
Titel	Boundary-Work in the Health Research Field: Biomedical and Clinician Scientists' Perceptions of Social Science Research
Quelle	In: Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 47 (2009) 2, S.171-194 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0026-4695
DOI	10.1007/s11024-009-9120-8
Schlagwörter	Social Science Research; Interdisciplinary Approach; Scientific Research; Health; Biomedicine; Scientists; Attitudes; Social Scientists; Culture Conflict; Foreign Countries; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Gesundheit; Biomedizin; Scientist; Wissenschaftler; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Social scientist; Sozialwissenschaftler; Kulturkonflikt; Ausland; Kanada
Abstract	Funding agencies in Canada are attempting to break down the organizational boundaries between disciplines to promote interdisciplinary research and foster the integration of the social sciences into the health research field. This paper explores the extent to which biomedical and clinician scientists' perceptions of social science research operate as a cultural boundary to the inclusion of social scientists into this field. Results indicated that cultural boundaries may impede social scientists' entry into the health research field through three modalities: (1) biomedical and clinician scientists' unfavourable and ambivalent posture towards social science research; (2) their opposition to a resource increase for the social sciences; and (3) clinician scientists procedural assessment criteria for social science. The paper also discusses the merits and limitations of Tom Gieryn's concept of boundary-work for studying social dynamics within the field of science. (As Provided).
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