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Time and Social Theory
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Time is a fact of life time in social theory - destiny, necessity, enigma from the measure of motion of entropy rhythmicity - source of life and form human time studied industrial time and power time transcended time for social theory.Abstract:
Time is a fact of life time in social theory - destiny, necessity, enigma from the measure of motion of entropy rhythmicity - source of life and form human time studied industrial time and power time transcended time for social theory - points of departure.read more
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