Gossip, epistemology, and power : knowledge underground /

This book focuses on how gossip contributes to knowledge. Karen Adkins utilizes scholarship and case studies that span centuries and disciplines to show that gossip is a constant in human activity, but is rarely studied as a source of knowledge. People gossip for many reasons, but most often out of...

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Main Author:	Adkins, Karen (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave MacMillan, [2017]
Subjects:	Gossip. Communication. Interpersonal communication. Knowledge, Sociology of. Knowledge, Theory of.