Being stuck in (live) time: The sticky sociological imagination

Sociological Review

Volumn 60, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 124-138

  Uprichard, Emma ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Ahistorical; Big data; Digital sociology; Empirical crisis; Live sociology; Now casting; Plastic present; Sociological imagination; Sticky time; Transactional data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871408286     PISSN: 00380261     EISSN: 1467954X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2012.002120.x     Document Type: Article

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