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The Social and the Cultural: Where do They Meet?
Jaan Valsiner
- pp 273-287
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In the social sciences, meta-theoretical discourse is part of social legitimation as discussed by the authors, where ideas meet as if they were clandestine lovers, at first secretly, passionately, and later, if discovered, as part of a scenario of a public scandal or a reconstituted legally accepted relationship.Abstract:
Meetings of ideas are not scripted events like handshakes of politicians at diplomatic summits. Rather, ideas meet as if they were clandestine lovers — at first secretly, passionately, and later — if discovered — as parts of a scenario of a public scandal or a reconstituted legally accepted relationship. Meta-theoretical discourse in the social sciences is part of that latter social legitimation.read more
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