Events as templates of possibility: An analytic typology of political facts

The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 613-635

  Berezin, Mabel ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Counterfactual turn; Cultural analysis; Emile durkheim; Experience; Narrative; Political facts; Social facts; Thick description; William sewell

Indexed keywords

EID: 85060681078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195377767.013.23     Document Type: Chapter

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