Interdisciplinary social science

I'm getting more interested in the idea of being a social scientist first and a 'disciplined' scholar second; this has always been at the back of my mind, but I've come across some nice statements by Richard Easterlin, for example, which express the reasoning far more eloquently than I ever could. While doing my PhD, I read (some of) Harold Wilensky's Rich Democracies, which does an admirable job of stitching together aggregate and individual data in a cross-national view. Have a look at the interview below, and in particulr, his account on Chicago:

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Wilensky/wilensky-con0.html