Lumping and splitting: Notes on social classification

Sociological Forum

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 421-433

  Zerubavel, Eviatar ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categories; Classification; Clusters; Cognitive sociology; Difference; Language; Similarity; Topological thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038877630     PISSN: 08848971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02408386     Document Type: Article

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