Collective Closure?: Public Debate as the Solution to Controversies about Science and Technology

Acta Sociologica

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 195-211

  Horst, Maja ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

controversies; cultural theory; engagement; public understanding of science; social order; sociology of knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956821914     PISSN: 00016993     EISSN: 15023869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001699310374904     Document Type: Article

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