THE SOCIAL SCIENTIST IN FARMING SYSTEMS RESEARCH
分析了社会科学家参与农业研究机构时产生的冲突，探讨了个人能力、沟通障碍、团队动力、机构结构和权力斗争五种解释，指出结构性问题比通常认为的更关键。
The involvement of social scientists in agricultural research institutions has contributed to the improvement of research methods but has often been associated with conflict. The paper describes the development of such conflict in one composite situation and analyses five explanations: personal inadequacy; interdisciplinary communication barriers; poor group dynamics; inadequate institutional structure; and power struggle. It concludes that structural problems are more important than is usually recognised, and makes some suggestions as to the practical lessons of the analysis for social scientists, for the colleagues of social scientists and for policy‐makers.