Some further reflections on the Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology

Sociology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 762-772

  Savage, Mike ^a   Burrows, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digitization; Interviews; Methodology; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349209417     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038509105420     Document Type: Article

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