Epistemological, social, and political conundrums in social constructionism

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Ratner, Carl ^a  

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Author keywords

Community; Critical realism; Philosophy of science; Social fragmentation; Subjectivism; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 31844449767     PISSN: 14385627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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