Measuring Meaning Structures

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 24, Issue , 1998, Pages 345-370

  Mohr, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Institutions; Meaning; Network; Structuralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032327883     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.24.1.345     Document Type: Article

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