Transmuted Expertise: How Technical Non-Experts Can Assess Experts and Expertise

Argumentation

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 401-413

  Collins, Harry ^a   Weinel, Martin ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Periodic table of expertises; Sociological discrimination; Tacit knowledge; Transmuted expertise

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051790626     PISSN: 0920427X     EISSN: 15728374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10503-011-9217-8     Document Type: Article

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