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The Research Act in Sociology.

Frank Bechhofer, +1 more
- 01 Mar 1973 - 
- Vol. 27, Iss: 1, pp 175
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This article is published in Population Studies-a Journal of Demography.The article was published on 1973-03-01. It has received 999 citations till now.

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