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.
Schneider, Daniela Ribeiro
Concepts
Environmental hygiene; Human ecology
Environmental history
Ecology
Cultural anthropology
Anthropology
Sewerage
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
Kansas (U.S.)
North America
Colorado (U.S.)
Great Britain
Africa
Institutions
Spain. Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo
University of Chicago
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