Field Analysis and Interdisciplinary Science: Scientific Capital Exchange in Behavior Genetics |
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| Authors: | Aaron L Panofsky |
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| Institution: | (1) UCLA Department of Public Policy and Center for Society and Genetics, Box 957221, 1323 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7221, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper uses Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory to develop tools for analyzing interdisciplinary scientific fields. Interdisciplinary
fields are scientific spaces where no single form of scientific capital has a monopoly and therefore multiple forms of scientific
capital constitute the structures and stakes of scientific competition. Scientists compete to accumulate and define forms
of scientific capital and also to set the rates of exchange between them. The paper illustrates this framework by applying
it to the interdisciplinary field of behavior genetics. Most behavior geneticists envision their participation in the field
as a means to compete for scientific capital in other fields. However, the scientific capital of behavior genetics has different
values for scientists attempting to deploy it in different neighboring fields. These values depend on situations in each field
and the ways behavior genetics mediates relationships among them. The pattern of relationships of exchange helps explain the
social hierarchy and several features of knowledge production within behavior genetics. |
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