Anty anty-interdyscyplinarność
Anti Anti-Interdisciplinarity

The Exercise in Sociology of Knowledge

Author(s): Piotr Kulas
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: sociology of knowledge; knowledge – power; control; field of scientific productivity; Michel Foucault
Summary/Abstract: The text aims to draw attention to the ambivalence of interdisciplinarity in science. The author argues that specialization and interdisciplinarity are the two sides of the process forming the modern field of scientific production. Science is a specific kind of knowledge and needs non-scientific knowledge for self-approval. The formation of modern scientific disciplines is determined by the will to know and describe reality. It is, however, entangled in audit relations. A scientific statement must be written into the theoretical horizon. Disciplines impose limits on who, where and on what conditions can speak on particular subjects. Science is a kind of bureaucracy controlling scientific undertakings and scholars, whose aim is to maintain boundaries between disciplines. It allows controlling the quality of the conducted research. The presented text outlines the research project on interdisciplinarity in social sciences, with particular reference to sociology. The author points to the major advantages and disadvantages of interdisciplinarity in sociology. He also argues that sociology developed as science closely linked to other disciplines. Interdisciplinarity of sociology should be of ecological character and used wherever it can bring a cognitive benefit.

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