Civil society, economic distress, and social tolerance

Sociological Forum

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 203-230

  Persell, Caroline Hodges ^a   Green, Adam ^a   Gurevich, Liena ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Civil society; Homosexual tolerance; Racial tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035374133     PISSN: 08848971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011048600902     Document Type: Article

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