The poverty of deductivism: A constructive realist model of sociological explanation

Sociological Methodology

Volumn 34, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-33

  Gorski, Philip S ^a,b  

^a Department of Sociology ^*  (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 16244392089     PISSN: 00811750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0081-1750.2004.00144.x     Document Type: Article

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