Social Construction in a World at Risk: Toward a Psychology of Experience

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 509-531

  Bradley, Benjamin Sylvester ^a   Morss, John R ^b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Enlightenment; epistemology; experience; individualization; modernization; phenomenology; politics; reflexivity; risk; social construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036364960     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354302012004297     Document Type: Article

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