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core set: a standalone construct

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Sociology of scientific knowledge

the small group of scientists actively involved in a controversy whose experiments and arguments in practice decide how it is settled.

In sociology of scientific knowledge, core set refers to the small group of scientists actively involved in a controversy whose experiments and arguments in practice decide how it is settled. This meaning comes from Collins (1981) in History of Science.[1]

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References

Collins, H. M. (1981). The Place of the ‘Core-Set’ in Modern Science: Social Contingency with Methodological Propriety in Science. History of Science, 19(1), 6-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/007327538101900102

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