"We're the customer - We pay the tuition": Student consumerism among undergraduate sociology majors

Teaching Sociology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 100-107

  Delucchi, Michael ^a   Korgen, Kathleen ^a  

^a University of Hawaii West Oahu   (United States)

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EID: 0036002435     PISSN: 0092055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3211524     Document Type: Note

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