A new political arithmetic to make sociology useful? Comments on a debate

British Journal of Sociology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 439-446

  Hammersley, Martyn ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; NOTE; POLICY; POLITICS; SOCIOLOGY;

HUMANS; POLICY MAKING; POLITICS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 4644373990     PISSN: 00071315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2004.00029.x     Document Type: Note

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