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The issue of meaning has been a central one in discussions of differences between the natural and social worlds and the generation of appropriate methodologies to understand these worlds. As far as the social sciences themselves are concerned, the debate around this issue has centred on the violation of meaning through the imposition of inappropriate theoretical perspectives or the ignoring of meaning through the collection of non-reflexive and abstracted data.
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Oliver, M. (1990). Disability Definitions: the Politics of Meaning. In: The Politics of Disablement. Critical Texts in Social Work and the Welfare State. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20895-1_1
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