On "realization" in everyday life: The forecasting of bad news as a social relation

American Sociological Review

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 109-131

  Maynard, Douglas W ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/2096409     Document Type: Article

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