Individualistic Humans: Social Constructionism, Identity and Change

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 311-336

  Michael, Mike ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

actor network theory; change; identity; social constructionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031503023     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354397073002     Document Type: Article

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