Mutually Contested Concepts and Their Standard General Use

Journal of Classical Sociology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 329-343

  Smith, Kenneth ^a  

^a REGENT'S UNIVERSITY LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

concepts; essentially contested concepts; Gallie; mutually contested concepts; objectivity; social science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990354024     PISSN: 1468795X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468795X02002003197     Document Type: Article

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