The Social Construction of Social Facts: Using the U.S. Census to Examine Race as a Scientific and Moral Category

Teaching Sociology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 223-238

  Townsley, Eleanor ^a  

^a MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 34547733398     PISSN: 0092055X     EISSN: 1939862X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0092055X0703500302     Document Type: Review

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