The rehabilitation of common sense: Social representations, science and cognitive polyphasia

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 431-448

  Jovchelovitch, Sandra ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive polyphasia; Common sense; Everyday life; Psychoanalysis; Science; Social representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 57549117312     PISSN: 00218308     EISSN: 14685914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2008.00378.x     Document Type: Article

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