Perpetual revelations: C. Wright Mills and Paul Lazarsfeld

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 608, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-40

  Summers, John H ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C. Wright Mills; Columbia sociology; Paul Lazarsfeld; Personal Influence; Robert Merton; Sociological imagination

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749987594     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716206292374     Document Type: Article

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