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2. Paradigmatically presented in T. Parsons/G.M. Platt, The American University, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1973.
3. T. Parsons/G.M. Platt, op. cit., note 2, 1973, p. 14.
4. P. Feyerabend, Wider den Methodenzwang. Skizze einer anarchistischen Erkenntnistheorie, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1976.
5. St. Cotgrove/St. Box, Science, Industry and Society. Studies in the Sociology of Science, London: Allen and Unwin, 1979.