Concepts and Categories: Foundations for Sociological and Cultural Analysis
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Columbia University Press, 2019.
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Michael T. Hannan., Michael T. Hannan|AUTHOR., Gaël Le Mens|AUTHOR., Greta Hsu|AUTHOR., & Balázs Kovács|AUTHOR. (2019). Concepts and Categories: Foundations for Sociological and Cultural Analysis . Columbia University Press.
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