Forbidden knowledge: Public controversy and the production of nonknowledge

Sociological Forum

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 475-500

  Kempner, Joanna ^a   Merz, Jon F ^b   Bosk, Charles L ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge; Legitimacy; Phenomenology; Public sociology; Science; Social control

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961175818     PISSN: 08848971     EISSN: 15737861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2011.01259.x     Document Type: Article

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