"Hoes can be hoed out, players can be played out, but pimp is for life" - The pimp phenomenon as strategy of identity formation

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 407-428

  Staiger, Annegret ^a  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 27144471369     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/si.2005.28.3.407     Document Type: Review

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