Young, Gay, and Suicidal: Dynamic Nominalism and the Process of Defining a Social Problem with Statistics

Science Technology and Human Values

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 199-225

  Waidzunas, Tom ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

epistemology; gay youth; historical ontology; looping effects; statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857981187     PISSN: 01622439     EISSN: 15528251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0162243911402363     Document Type: Article

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