PROVOCATIVE CONTAINMENT AND THE DRIFT OF SOCIAL-SCIENTIFIC REALISM

Journal of Cultural Economy

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 278-293

  Lezaun, Javier ^a   Muniesa, Fabian ^b   Vikkelsø, Signe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE DE SOCIOLOGIE DE L INNOVATION   (France)

^c Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

experimental methods in the social sciences; experimental psychology; Jacob L. Moreno; Kurt Lewin; Philip G. Zimbardo; provocation; realism; social psychology; social reality; Stanley Milgram; Wilfred Bion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882271442     PISSN: 17530350     EISSN: 17530369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.739972     Document Type: Article

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