Society as experiment: Sociological foundations for a self-experimental society

History of the Human Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 63-86

  Gross, Matthias ^c   Krohn, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Inst for Sci and Technol Studies   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chicago School of Sociology; Experiments in society; History of sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 20744438684     PISSN: 09526951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0952695105054182     Document Type: Article

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