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"No field of study can advance significantly unless outsiders bring their knowledge and experience to that field of study."
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The world witnesses the progress of globalization among different academic fields, which leads a tendency that the distribution of principles becomes more complex than ever before. Under such an atmosphere, I really agree the justification that any field has to introduce the knowledge and experience from other field in long-term development, even through the internal advance of any field also play a very important role.
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, ?+ O0 j2 M! mNowadays, the human society has experienced two industrial revolutions and the third time has been on its way for about a half century. Benefiting from the rapid progress of information age, most principles which were isolated from each other have linked deeply till now. For instance, traditional demography only pay attention to the growth of population, however, it has turn into a cross principle covering the knowledge of medicine, economics, sociology and so on.
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However, bringing from other principles is little indication to the ignorance of the improvement of the principle itself. Every field must have its own characteristics no matter whether it is new or old. Such as economics and sociology, both of them belong to the social science, but there are essential differences in their perspective in studying the society. Only if a field can insist its own independent figure, it is able to occupy a room in so many principles.
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In sum, a field not only needs open its mind in adopting the bonus from other fields, and it also need keep a clear recognition of what it is and remain an independent status in such a pool.
