Article ID: CBB000068172

Ecological metaphors as scientific boundary work: Innovation and authority in interwar sociology and biology (1996)

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Description “The development of human ecology during the interwar period [in the United States] was a significant scientific innovation enabled by the sociological use of biological concepts as tropes for social organization.”


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Authors & Contributors
Whorton, James C.
White, Luise
Walters, Bradley B.
Vander, Arthur J.
Steneck, Nicholas H.
Schull, William J.
Journals
Professional Geographer
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains
Journal of Urban History
Journal of Historical Geography
Journal of African History
Publishers
Princeton University Press
Wiley-Liss
The MIT Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Greenwood Press
AltaMira Press
Concepts
Environmental hygiene; Human ecology
Environmental history
Conservation of natural resources
Environmental sciences
Sewerage
Nature
People
Engelbart, Douglas Carl
Vogt, William
Sauer, Carl Ortwin
Harkins, William Draper
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
Kansas (U.S.)
North America
British Isles
Colorado (U.S.)
Great Britain
Institutions
Spain. Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo
University of Chicago
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission
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