Estimating U.S. Crude Oil Resources
Organizational Interests, Political Economy, and Historical Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9213668 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary Bowden (University of Calgary, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 419-448 |
| Publication date | 1982-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Pacific Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-8919 • E-ISSN: 2330-0736 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1388923 |
| OpenAlex | W2801715077 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 20 |
Resource estimates are generally assumed to be the direct product of geological and engineering information. Historical analysis, using a perspective suggested by the sociology of science, demonstrates that social factors influence the magnitude and variation among resource estimates made during the same historical period. In terms of magnitude and variation, three chronological patterns in the estimates of United States crude oil resources can be discerned, and it is argued (1) that each pattern reflects the ideological orientation present at that time, and (2) that changes from one ideological orientation to another can be traced to changes in the political-economic environment of the oil industry
Crude oil · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Ideology · Orientation (vector space) · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Product (mathematics) · Resource (disambiguation) · Variation (astronomy) · Geology · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Law · Mathematics
| Citations per year | 0.35 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |