An Integrative Perspective – Interdisciplinarity in Sociology. Social Psychology – an Applied Science

Abstract

Sociology has forever been a domain in which interdisciplinary studies are present. There are subject matters like anthropology that could be explored with the amount and contribution of ethnology, ethnography, geography, and psychology. Also, a global and integral view has social psychology where border sciences like psychology, anthropology, and sociology are met to create a new one. There are past or present interactions, real or imaginary ones of human conduct in social contexts. The results are possible because of the communication of this scientific field (examples like social representations, collective behaviour, personality a “social self”). We can mention interdisciplinarity contexts also urban sociology, rural sociology, industrial sociology, human resources, health sociology, and sport sociology which are mixed combinations of studies, methods, research, and instruments. I want to mention that there is an obvious delimitation between multidisciplinarity (information from a certain science is borrowed for another); and transdisciplinarity (a new perspective, interconnection of disciplines for creating a new one where we must train specialists – for example, biochemistry); multidisciplinarity(to replace side by side certain elements of multiple disciplines for reevaluating commons structures, or seeing the same problems but of different point of views – example: perceptions implies biochemistry, physiology, sociology, philosophy), interdisciplinarity (integration of different spheres of social field or reality by elaborating some new methodologies which can be applied in different areas of scientific actions). It’s the most favorable fact that interactions in some specific domains like sociology produce new abilities, values, and information for a global examination of social contexts.