Social Theory and Human Reality

Social Theory and Human Reality

Pertti Alasuutari

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Editorial:
Sage Publications
Año de edición:
2004
Materia
Antropología social y cultural, etnografía
ISBN:
9780761951643

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This book gets to the heart of what the social sciences really know about the elusive and contradictory object of research: human reality.

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