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specified ignorance: a standalone construct

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specifiedignorance1 CONSTRUCTSpecified ignoranceMERTON · SOCIOLOGY OF

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Sociology of knowledge

the explicit recognition of what is not yet known but needs to be known, treated as a basis for new research questions.

In sociology of knowledge, specified ignorance refers to the explicit recognition of what is not yet known but needs to be known, treated as a basis for new research questions. This meaning comes from Merton (1987) in Annual Review of Sociology.[1]

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  1. Merton, R. K. (1987). Three Fragments From a Sociologist's Notebooks: Establishing the Phenomenon, Specified Ignorance, and Strategic Research Materials. Annual Review of Sociology, 13(1), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.so.13.080187.000245

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