The compartmentalisation of social science : What are the implications?

Abstract

There is tremendous goodwill and good intentions among Nordic alcohol and drug researchers in sectoral research to uphold active contacts and interaction with basic research and teaching conducted in higher education environments. Still, there may be reason to be concerned over this relationship getting increasingly watered down – a concern that was, for example, raised during the Nordic alcohol and drug researchers’ assembly (NADRA) in Stockholm in 2014 and which was specifically expressed in fears of an inability to incorporate new theorisation. Sector research and the basic general core disciplines are gliding apart due to increased demands and competition. While these demands are shaped slightly differently, they have in both types of settings resulted in a trend of compartmentalisation.Non peer reviewe