Assimilation and localism: Some very small towns in mass society

Sociological Inquiry

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-82

  Donner, William W ^a  

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-682X.1998.tb00454.x     Document Type: Article

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