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| Interdisciplinarity is a type of academic collaboration in
which specialists drawn from two or more academic disciplines
work together in pursuit of common goals. Interdisciplinary
programs sometimes arise from a shared conviction that the
traditional disciplines are unable or unwilling to address an
important problem. For example, social science disciplines such
as anthropology and sociology paid little attention to the
social analysis of technology throughout most of the twentieth
century. As a result, many social scientists with interests in
technology have joined science and technology studies programs,
which are typically staffed by scholars drawn from numerous
disciplines (including anthropology, history, philosophy,
sociology, and women's studies). They may also arise from new
research developments, such as nanotechnology, which cannot be
addressed without combining the approach