A cosmopolitan approach to the explanation of social change: Social mechanisms, processes, modernity

Sociological Review

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 333-354

  Delanty, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmopolitanism; Explanation; Methodology; Modernity; Ontology; Processes; Social change; Social mechanisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862559272     PISSN: 00380261     EISSN: 1467954X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2012.02076.x     Document Type: Article

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