Lumping and splitting: Notes on social classification

1996/09/01 by Eviatar Zerubavel · 6 citations
Engineering · Psychology · #Categorization, perception, and language #Social Representations and Identity #Spatial Cognition and Navigation

paper · doi:10.1007/bf02408386

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