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Themed Section/Section Thématique: A Crisis of Sociology or Just a Crisis of Academic Sociology?

Professionalization, precarity and the Greek labour market: revisiting professional sociology in the period following the financial crisis

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Pages 354-377 | Received 15 Sep 2018, Accepted 05 Aug 2019, Published online: 27 Sep 2019

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