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Chapter 32 - Economic Sociology

from Part VII - Social Institutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2017

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Nina Bandelj ,
Elizabeth Sowers  and
Zaibu Tufail
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Kathleen Odell Korgen
Kathleen Odell Korgen
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William Paterson University, New Jersey
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology
Core Areas in Sociology and the Development of the Discipline
 , pp. 326 - 333
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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