Sociology as an epistemology of contradiction

Sociological Perspectives

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-22

  O'Brien, Jodi ^a  

^a SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Methodology; Sociological imagination; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 62849084104     PISSN: 07311214     EISSN: 15338673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sop.2009.52.1.5     Document Type: Article

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