Reductionism in social science

Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge: II: Reductionism

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5-56

  Sayer, Andrew ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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