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Classification and Control: Purity and Danger in Britain’s Asylum Regime

Sociology

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Abstract

Sociology, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 705-722, June 2026.
This article engages Douglas caution against an ‘unsociological view of cognition’ that fails to recognise classification as an epistemological issue. In so doing, it offers a conceptual framework for addressing this linkage in relation to British ...