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Chapter 2 introduces the ten prominent domains in creativity research and theory from the past decades. Arguments are presented from (1) organizational studies; (2) everyday and social creativity theories; (3) the innovation field that lays claims to creative roots and manufactures new products and designs, as well as ideas of creativity rescuing the American economic system; (4) the idea that creativity originates in groups; (5) the theory of the correlation, if not causal relationship, between creativity and intelligence; (6) the psychopathology field where it is assumed that creativity and genius are closely connected to madness; (7) the education field that proposes that creativity can be taught; (8) chaos theory/economic theory/the philosophy of creativity/design thinking/bio-mimickry/social creativity, each of which determines creativity as originating from a different source; (9) the commercial consulting industry that proposes that creativity can be learned; and (10) the domain of psychology.
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Reuter, M.E. (2015). Ten Domains That Have Explained Creativity… Or Maybe Not. In: Creativity — A Sociological Approach. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137531223_3
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