00976nam a22001217a 4500008004100000100002300041245006200064260003800126300002900164520058000193650004200773773003900815201019b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aGreene, Catherine   aNomadic concepts, variable choice and the social sciences  aPhilosophy of the Social Sciences  a50(1), Jan, 2020: p.3-22  aThe observation that concepts used by social scientists are often problematic is not new; they have been described as Ballung concepts, cluster concepts, essentially contested, and reflexive; however, the need to work with these concepts remains. This article addresses the problem of variable choice in the social sciences by exploring and extending Woodward’s recommendations. This article demonstrates why Woodward’s criteria are difficult to apply in the social sciences and proposes an alternative, but complementary, framework for assessing variables. - Reproduced   aVariable choice, Wellbeing, Democracy  aPhilosophy of the Social Sciences