[PDF][PDF] Competition as a culturally constructed concept

M Fülöp - Travelling facts: The social construction, distribution …, 2004 - researchgate.net
Travelling facts: The social construction, distribution, and …, 2004researchgate.net
Competition is an interdisciplinary concept; it is used in evolutionary biology, in economics,
in psychology, in sports sciences, etc. When representatives of these disciplines use the
expression, we all seem to know what it refers to. However, if we examine it thoroughly,
competition has many different meanings within each discipline. For instance, competition is
a basic concept of evolutionary theories and ecology, so we would rightly expect it to have
an exact meaning in biology. However, in the Keywords of Evolutionary Biology …
Competition is an interdisciplinary concept; it is used in evolutionary biology, in economics, in psychology, in sports sciences, etc. When representatives of these disciplines use the expression, we all seem to know what it refers to. However, if we examine it thoroughly, competition has many different meanings within each discipline.
For instance, competition is a basic concept of evolutionary theories and ecology, so we would rightly expect it to have an exact meaning in biology. However, in the Keywords of Evolutionary Biology (Keller/Lloyd 1992), we get a more disappointing picture. What we find is that there is an ostensibly neutral technical term and another, colloquial meaning with quite a different set of connotations.
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