On choosing one's intellectual predecessors: The reductionism of Camic's treatment of Parsons and the institutionalists

Sociological Theory

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 154-171

  Alexander, Jeffrey C ^a   Sciortino, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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DOI: 10.2307/201904     Document Type: Review

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