Barking up the wrong branch: Scientific alternatives to the current model of sociological science

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 28, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-19

  Lieberson, Stanley ^a   Lynn, Freda B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Darwin; Evidence; Evolution; Experimentation; Physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036025781     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.28.110601.141122     Document Type: Review

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