Toward a historicized sociology: Theorizing events, processes, and emergence

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 33, Issue , 2007, Pages 527-549

  Clemens, Elisabeth S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative method; Group emergence; Historical sociology; Multiple orders; Social caging; Temporality

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848865017     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.33.040406.131700     Document Type: Review

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