Thanks to Michael and Jeremy on their descriptions of transdisciplinarity. They make sense to me. It's basically about the establishment of new disciplines. What scares me is when trans... means nondisciplinary -- I have seen too many papers in conferences and in journal submissions that seem to have no disciplinary guidance -- old and new. Let trans be tran (and inter be inter), but non be gone! Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________