What would a Bourdieuan sociology of scientific truth look like?

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Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-79

  Kim, Kyung Man ^a  

^a NONE   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Autonomy of scientific field; Biometry; Mendelism controversy; Rational dialectic; Relativist sociology of science; Scientific truth

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449231621     PISSN: 05390184     EISSN: 14617412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0539018408099637     Document Type: Article

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