The state-sponsored and centralised institutionalisation of an academic discipline: Sociology in South Africa, 1920–1970

Society in Transition

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 70-103

  Ally, Shireen ^a   Mooney, Katie ^b   Stewart, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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EID: 85044980637     PISSN: 10289852     EISSN: 20721951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2003.10419084     Document Type: Article

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