Reflexivity and social science: A contradiction in terms?

Making Realism Work: Realist Social Theory and Empirical Research

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 171-188

  May, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203624289     Document Type: Chapter

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