Distorted universality - Internationalization and its implications for the epistemological foundations of the discipline

Canadian Journal of Sociology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 555-574

  Keim, Wiebke ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c NONE

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EID: 84901844917     PISSN: 03186431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.29173/cjs4154     Document Type: Article

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