Throwing the Sociological Imagination Into the Garbage: Using Students’ Waste Disposal Habits to Illustrate C. Wright Mills's Concept

Teaching Sociology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 150-155

  Dowell, William ^a  

^a Heartland Community College   (United States)

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EID: 33744746526     PISSN: 0092055X     EISSN: 1939862X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0092055X0603400205     Document Type: Review

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