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Sociology in an Era of Fragmentation: From the Sociology of Knowledge to the Philosophy of Science, and Back Again

George SteinmetzUniversity of MichiganCorrespondence[email protected]
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Ou-Byung ChaeUniversity of Michigan
Pages 111-137 | Published online: 12 Dec 2016

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