Be Seeing You:: A Rejoinder to Webster and Robins and to Jenkins

Sociology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 785-797

  Sewell, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

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EID: 84993724906     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038596030004009     Document Type: Article

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