Engaging the sociological imagination: My journey into design research and public sociology

Anthropology and Education Quarterly

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-91

  Mehan, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical ethnography; Design research; Public sociology; Sociological imagination

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749137824     PISSN: 01617761     EISSN: 15481492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2008.00006.x     Document Type: Article

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